The cliché of the intransparent and lobby-controlled apparatus wants to oppose the EU. Their institutions are committed to greater transparency – albeit to different degrees.
The EU-Commission has for the past eight years, your transparency register. It has 12,000 entries and lists all stakeholders who wish to be heard in Brussels. All registered lobbyists are also subject to a common code of conduct.
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lists companies, agencies and consulting firms or law firms on behalf of individual companies. Add to that professional associations, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, but also think tanks and universities, churches, and regional or local representatives.
An entry in the transparency register is voluntary. He is a formal, if not a mandatory prerequisite to a representative of the EU Commission. The Commission makes their Meetings with lobby representatives in addition to the public. Thus, for European citizens to understand what the stakeholders have spoken of what Commissioner what the topic.
