{"id":12691,"date":"2014-11-04T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/s1-advancing-the-right-to-know\/c2-european-union\/12691"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:11:37","slug":"juncker-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2014-11-04\/juncker-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society welcome Juncker commitment to improve lobbying transparency in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Madrid, 4 November 2014<\/em> &#8211; ALTER-EU, of which Access Info Europe is a steering committee member, has welcomed EU Commission President Juncker&#8217;s commitment to improve transparency around lobbying through a mandatory lobby register and more proactive publication of information, in a letter sent this week.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition wrote to seek assurance that the commitment to a mandatory register will take the form of a legislative proposal rather than an Inter-Institutional agreement, and that the scope of proactive transparency is widened to cover a broad range of Commission meetings between officials and that all such information is published on a regular and timely basis so it is up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also encouraged further improvements to balance of interests and transparency in Commission Expert Groups, as well as revolving doors and ethic rules.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a copy of the letter <a class=\"jce_file_custom\" title=\"ALTER-EU_letter_to_Jean-Claude_Juncker_01_11_2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALTER-EU_letter_to_Jean-Claude_Juncker_01_11_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-10727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/file_pdf.png\" alt=\"file_pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>For more information, please contact:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Pam Bartlett Quintanilla |<\/strong> Access Info Europe<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:pam@access-info.org\" target=\"_blank\">pam@access-info.org<\/a> +34 913 656 558<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, 4 November 2014 &#8211; ALTER-EU, of which Access Info Europe is a steering committee member, has welcomed EU Commission President Juncker&#8217;s commitment to improve transparency around lobbying through a mandatory lobby register and more proactive publication of information, in a letter sent this week. The coalition wrote to seek assurance that the commitment to a mandatory register will take the form of a legislative proposal rather than an Inter-Institutional agreement, and that the scope of proactive transparency is widened to cover a broad range of Commission meetings between officials and that all such information is published on a regular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18132,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions\/18132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}