EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Transparency

Parliament relatively happy with proposal on compulsory lobbyist register

Brussels, 06/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

In the debate in the late evening of Wednesday 5 October, MEPs generally welcomed the proposal on the table for a compulsory transparency register (see EUROPE 11634).

The Commission has proposed that the three institutions – the Council included – should apply the same minimum standards.  Under these proposals, lobbyists wanting to arrange meetings with decision-makers on any of the three institutions will have to be included on the transparency register.

Danuta Maria Hübner (EPP,...