Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of about 200 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.

Formal complaint on Barroso, Kroes, De Gucht revolving door cases — 29 September 2016, 19:35 CET

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) today launched a complaint to European Comission President Juncker about his handling of the revolving door moves of several former commissioners.

Tiny steps forward insufficient to regain public trust — 28 September 2016, 22:14 CET

The European Commission has today published its proposal for a new inter-institutional agreement on the lobby transparency register, and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) makes the following reaction:

New research reveals Commission still puts big business in charge of key advisory groups, despite promising reform to MEPs — 06 November 2013, 23:47 CET

Should speculators be given privileged access to dominate advice on financial regulation, beverage companies on alcohol policy, or fossil fuel companies on climate change?

New report shows urgent need to rescue EU's ineffective lobby register — 20 June 2013, 13:02 CET

The European Commission and European Parliament's joint lobby register turns two years old this week, and a new report by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) shows that the voluntary register is still failing to get a sufficient share of lobbyists to register and remains packed with unreliable and incomplete data.

EU Treaties provide legal base for mandatory lobby register — 18 June 2013, 18:03 CET

Over the next months, the European Commission and Parliament will review their voluntary joint Transparency Register that entered into force June 2011.

Lobby register review: it's now or never for mandatory transparency — 07 March 2013, 10:37 CET

The review of the Commission and Parliament's Joint Transparency Register) – foreseen to take place two years after its launch – is already underway. ALTER-EU believes this is an unmissable opportunity to make the voluntary lobby register mandatory, with improved disclosure requirements.

Call for stricter lobby rules after Dalli scandal — 05 November 2012, 13:54 CET

Civil society groups have today written to the European Commission President urging him to end the secrecy around the resignation of the former Health and Consumer Commissioner John Dalli.

New MEP code of conduct a step forward: now MEPs must do their homework — 01 December 2011, 13:44 CET

A vote in the European Parliament today to introduce a new code of conduct for MEPs has been welcomed by The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU).

Transparency campaigners demand ban on lobby related side jobs for MEPs — 02 June 2011, 23:30 CET

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) has given evidence to a senior group of MEPs at a hearing in the European Parliament.

Transparency still out of sight on lobby register's second anniversary — 24 June 2010, 13:08 CET

Two years after its introduction the European Commission's lobby register has failed to bring lobbying into the open, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) said today. The group used the anniversary of the register to call on the Commission to take urgent steps towards a mandatory, joint register for the European Commission and European Parliament with improved transparency standards.