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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10959

8 November 2013
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) commission
Is the corporate world over-represented on expert groups?

Brussels, 07/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - Research by the Alter-UE NGO shows that the European Commission puts large companies at the head of its key expert groups.

The figures released on Wednesday 6 November show that, at the European Commission departments for taxation and customs union (DG TAXUD), nearly 80% of expert group members represent corporate interests. At the Secretariat General, the figure is 64% and at DG Enterprise and Industry 62%. If these figures are correct, they show that...

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