TALKS START ON CREATING COMPREHENSIVE EU LOBBYING REGISTER
May 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the European Parliament have opened talks on uniting their two independent lobbyist registers into one European Union (EU) system. The parliament launched a voluntary register in 1998 and the Commission in 2008, and both sides have agreed to finalise administrative and technical issues surrounding creating a united register. There are 2,700 organisations on the Commission register; 1,850 on the parliamentary list. The lack of a common comprehensive EU lobbying register has fuelled criticism of EU lobbyist influence ...
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