{"id":15564,"date":"2015-04-10T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2018-11-13T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:47:18","slug":"seeking-sign-ons-for-letter-to-european-commission-on-lobby-transparency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2015-04-10\/seeking-sign-ons-for-letter-to-european-commission-on-lobby-transparency-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Sign-ons for Letter to European Commission on Lobby Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), which Access Info participates in as a Steering Committee member, is seeking sign-ons from civil society organisations for a letter to European Vice-President Frans Timmermans<\/strong>, as part of our campaign to improve lobbying transparency in Brussels.<\/p>\n

The EU has a voluntary lobby register that covers the European Parliament and European Commission. The register is meant to tell us who the EU’s lobbyists are; who they are working for; how much they spend on influencing policy; and what specific dossiers they lobby on. Yet the lobby register does not deliver real transparency, as our recent report \u201c<\/a>New and Improved? Why the EU Lobby Register still fails to deliver\u201d<\/a> makes clear.<\/p>\n

ALTER EU believes that making lobby information fully transparent can limit unethical lobbying and ensure a better balance between corporate and public interest groups in the access to, and influence they have over, EU decision-making processes.<\/p>\n

An announcement by European Commission President Juncker and First Vice-President Timmermans that they will work to boost lobby transparency is a positive development which now gives us a unique political opportunity to demand a high-quality and legally-binding EU register. But in order to achieve this, we need your help.<\/p>\n

We would like to invite your organisation to sign-on to the attached letter which we will send to Frans Timmermans, the commissioner responsible, on Monday 11 May. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The deadline for organisational sign-ons is Thursday 7 May. To sign-on, please send a high resolution logo to Claudio Cesarano claudio@access-info.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To get involved in the campaign you can also:<\/p>\n