Lobbying in the Parliament Sample Clauses

Lobbying in the Parliament. 111) In order to address the issues of lobbying, in the first place donations to EU-level politicians and political parties as well as the participation by the representatives of various stakeholders in the EU legislative process are regulated. As far as the donations are concerned, the Regulation 2004/2003381 that applied until the end of financial year 2017 required the EU-level political parties382 to release: 1) public statements on their revenue, 373 Corporate Europe Observatory, 'Lobby Planer Brussels: The Corporate Europe Observatory guide to the murky world of EU lobbying' (June 2017) (Lobby Planet Brussels 2017), 4. 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx 0000 (n 373), 4. 375 Corporate Europe Observatory, 'Lobby Planet: Brussels The EU quarter' (4th edn September 2011), 00 (Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx 0000). See also generally, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx Cingotti, Xxxxxx Fleet and Xxxx xx Xxxxx, 'Fracking Brussels: A who's who of the shale gas lobby' Friend of the Earth Europe (July 2014) <xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/sites/default/files/publications/foee-fracking-brussels-240714_1.pdf> accessed 25 October 2017. 376 “Industry lobbying has been shown to have played a significant role in weakening and undermining the effectiveness of EU’s climate policies. This has resulted in an EU climate policy which relies on a combination of weak CO2 reduction measures, carbon trading and other dangerous pseudo-solutions such as agrofuels to tackle growing emissions – a raft of measures which have allowed large corporations to continue emitting and profiting from a new market.” Lobby Planet Brussels 2011 (n 375), 41. 377 Eg BP, Shell. See ibid. 41. 378 ibid. 2. 379 The lobbying register was introduced in 2008 by the Commission and evolved in 2011 into a joint register of the Commission and Parliament, and as for late 2017 still was not mandatory. See Lobby Planet Brussels 2011 (n 375), 9; Lobby Planet Brussels 2017 (n 373), 17, 19. 380 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, '7,000 and counting Lobby meetings of the European Commission' Transparency International (1 December 2015), 7. 381 Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 on the regulations governing political parties at European level and the rules regarding their Funding [2004] L 297 OJ 1 as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007 [2007] L 343 OJ 5 (Regulation 2004/2003).
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