INSTITUTIONAL / Transparency

MEPs will have to make their meetings with lobbyists known

Brussels, 06/12/2018 (Agence Europe)

Committee chairmen, rapporteurs or shadow rapporteurs will have to publish their meetings with lobbyists, according to the update of the European Parliament's rules of procedure adopted on Thursday 6 December in the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs. 

These new rules are contained in the report by Richard Corbett (S&D, UK), adopted unanimously in committee and to be voted on by the European Parliament in January 2019 in Strasbourg. If approved, the rules will apply...