We Need to Talk About Expert Groups...
Yet another meeting between the European Commission and the European Parliament about overhauling the Commission's advisory groups has been cancelled. So what's going on?
It seems like the Commission does not want the public to know about the recent progress it has made in stopping big business dominating its 'expert groups'. It has produced an update but won't make it public. However, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), on behalf of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), has obtained a copy of the Commission's latest efforts. In short, the Commission has fallen well short of the promises of reform it made to Parliament.
To see a fuller explanation of the Commission's latest update on its reforms, as well as ALTER-EU's repsonses, see the article on the ALTER-EU website: http://www.alter-eu.org/documents/2013/03/talk-about-expert-groups, or alternatively, read them directly here.
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