Voluntary lobby register still inadequate | Corporate Europe Observatory

Voluntary lobby register still inadequate | Corporate Europe Observatory:

Is the European Commission right to be so jubilant about the #Transparency Register of #lobbies? See why not and check out, for example, the 46 EU lobby firms identified as missing.

 

 

 

 Last Friday, the EU's Annual Report on the Transparency Register was published, with a jubilant press release which reported that the number of registrants had grown by 10 per cent during the past year. The report does not assess who these new registrants are and whether they are major players in lobbying, but the fact remains that hundreds of companies and lobby groups actively lobbying to influence EU decision-making, continue to boycott the register. The self-congratulatory tone of the EU's report is therefore rather awkward.