Taller sobre el lobby ciudadano y la regulación de los grupos de presión
El lobby ciudadano
La mala reputación del lobby es el resultado del frecuente coqueteo entre poderes políticos y poderes económicos que atenta a la democracia representativa. Sin embargo, el lobby está al alcance de todos y es un concepto clave a la hora de devolver al ciudadano, el protagonismo en la democracia.
El taller propone buscar soluciones que permitan fomentar la participación ciudadana en el proceso de toma de decisiones e inspirarse de las técnicas empleadas por los grandes grupos de interés para influir en las decisiones de nuestros políticos, en defensa del interés común.
Regulación de los grupos de presión
Para que los ciudadanos podamos participar en igualdad de condiciones con los grupos de presión profesionales es imprescindible en primer lugar la creación de un registro de lobbies. El registro aportaría una mayor transparencia y permitiría a los ciudadanos saber quién está ejerciendo presión sobre los representantes políticos, de qué forma y con qué fin.
En España, se ha iniciado el debate sobre la regulación de los lobbies. El grupo parlamentario Izquierda Plural presentó una proposición no de ley para la creación de un registro de lobbies en España en febrero 2012, mientras que el Partido Popular ha mencionado su interés en incluirlo en la nueva Ley de Transparencia. En el taller de Navacerrada, debatiremos las distintas formas de regular el lobby vigentes en otros países para ir definiendo una campaña española a favor de una regulación adecuada y transparente de los grupos de presión.
Documentos sobre el taller:
New opaque step in the adoption of Spain's Access to Information Law
6 August 2012, Madrid-The current version of the legislative bill on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance has now been published by the Spanish government. Please, see links below to access the updated bill:
The legislative bill on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance (27 July 2012)
Comparing the text of the draft Law on Transparency with its previous version (by TuDerechoaSaber)
Civil society demands a more transparent EU lobby register
Madrid/Brussels, 23 July 2012 – Civil society organisations are fast making their opinions known on the EU's one-year-old transparency register, calling for improvements to the information disclosed by interest groups so that citizens are able to identify who is lobbying the EU for what, and with what levels of success.
The EU's transparency register was launched last year, after the European Parliament and the Commission decided to create a single register of lobbyists for the two institutions. However, ALTER-EU and other pro-transparency campaigners have criticised the register for failing to provide accurate, up-to-date and easily comparable information to the citizens of the EU.
The Commission launched a public consultation on the register on 8 June this year with a view to including civil society's recommendations in the annual report on the functioning of the register, due to be launched after the summer. The consultation will run through to Friday 31 August 2012.
Denmark drops reform of EU access to documents rules as disagreements prove insurmountable
20 June 2012 - The Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU yesterday gave up on trying to reach an agreement between the European Commission, the Parliament and the Member States on reform of the rules that govern public access to EU documents.
With the European Parliament standing firmly in favour of greater transparency for citizens, and the European Commission pressing for amendments to the Regulation that would exclude entire classes of information or narrow the definition of a document, the agreement hinged on an agreement between the 27 Member States meeting in the Council.
But divisions between the Member States were so acute that the Danish Presidency has abandoned the file after six months of intense negotiations. The public is not allowed access to the positions of each individual Member State in the Council (a practice being challenged by Access Info Europe before the European Court of Justice), but government and Council sources involved in the negotiations report that a majority of Member States – particularly large countries including France and Germany – either support the Commission's approach or have been proposing further transparency-reducing amendments.
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