Consultation on Lobbying in the EU

The Commission has launched a consultation on a Code of Conduct for Interest Representatives.

On the basis of the communication on the Follow-up to the Green Paper on the 'European transparency Initiative', the Commission has committed itself to draft a Code of Conduct, which will accompany the public register for interest representatives to be launched in Spring 2008.

The Code will contain a limited number of clear and concrete rules, indicating how interest representatives are expected to behave when representing their interests.

When registering, registrants would automatically be asked to declare that they would abide by this code, or that they already abide by a similar professional code.
The consultation is open to all citizens and organisations that wish to give their views on the nature of the items to be included in this draft Code.

Deadline for submission of contributions: 15 February 2008.

For more information:

http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/consultation_code/index_en.htm