| Author (Person) | Pignal, Stanley |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 29.10.09 |
| Publication Date | 29/10/2009 |
| Content Type | News |
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The European Commission adopted 28 October 2009 a Communication drawing from the lessons of the first year of its register of interest representatives. Registration has now become a normal step for those intending to interact with the European institutions. With more than 2000 organisations registered so far, the voluntary approach has worked and made the register a good basis on which to build further. While the fundamentals of the Commission's register are safeguarded – voluntary nature of the register linked to a code of conduct, reasonable level of financial disclosure, declarations by organisations rather by individuals – the functioning of the register is improved. The Commission now hopes to make speedy progress on agreeing a common, improved register with the European Parliament. The FT article says that there are no plans for a mandatory registry of the thousands of organisations that lobby the European Commission in spite of the anaemic take-up of a voluntary version set up in 2008. |
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| Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
