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E-4383/2010
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Incentives for think tanks and other unregistered lobbyists to join the Commission's register of interest representatives

Question for written answer E-4383/2010
to the Commission
Rule 117
Michail Tremopoulos (Verts/ALE)

Responding to a letter from 44 NGOs, Commissioner Potočnik stated the following:

‘As a think tank — and not a lobby — Friends of Europe has not signed into the European Commission’s lobby registry. We have however not considered this fact as a sufficient reason to cease collaborations with FoE, in particular as the registry remains voluntary’ [1]

This statement is at direct odds with a speech by Siim Kallas when he used to be Vice-President responsible for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud. He then clearly said:

‘“Friends of Europe”, like other think tanks, should register’[2]

According to the Commission the ‘voluntary registration system’ would provide ‘incentives for lobbyists (or interest representatives) to register’[3]

The incentives in place like email alerts[4] have failed to boost transparency since the majority of Brussels-based interest representations remain unregistered.[5]

We would like to ask the European Commission:

OJ C 170 E, 10/06/2011