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EU lobby register: still failing to deliver real transparency
Madrid/Brussels, 27 January 2015 - New research, published today, shows that the EU lobby register is failing to provide full transparency on lobbying as many financial lobbyists, major corporations, law firms and lobby consultancies that are actively working to influence EU law, are still not registered. The research by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), which is
Open Government Standards
Access Info Europe has led for the last year a campaign aimed to create Open Government Standards and promote them around the world. The idea was to set standards on what open, transparent, accountable and participatory government really means. Open Government is a hot topic right now, but what does it really mean in practice? What should government be doing
El Consejo de Transparencia echa a andar sin explicar a los ciudadanos cómo presentar un recurso a las solicitudes de información denegadas
Post originalmente publicado en El Blog de Tuderechoasaber.es Madrid, 20 de enero de 2015 - A pesar de que la ley de transparencia entró en vigor hace más de un mes, aún no se conoce si existe un trámite específico para presentar un recurso ante el Consejo de la Transparencia, que se constituyó ayer lunes. Esta falta de información afecta
La Coalición Pro Acceso critica las graves carencias con las que entra en vigor la ley de transparencia
Madrid, 19 de diciembre de 2014 – La Coalición Pro Acceso, plataforma creada en 2006 para promover la aprobación de una ley de transparencia en España, denuncia la baja calidad de la ley de transparencia y considera inaceptable la terrible implementación que empezó el pasado 10 de diciembre. Además de las limitaciones que recoge a propia ley es realmente alarmante
Access Info Europe presents complaint to Spanish Ombudsman over poor implementation of the right of access to information
Madrid, 17 December 2014 - Access Info Europe today presented a complaint to the Spanish Ombudsman raising concerns about obstacles to the right to request information under the Spain’s transparency law that entered into force on 10 December 2014. There are two elements to the complaint: First, that requesters may only send information requests via the Transparency Portal by complicated
Juncker Commission breaks promise to create a mandatory lobby register, say transparency campaigners
Brussels, - According to ALTER EU transparency campaigners [1], the proposal by the Juncker Commission - as part of its 2015 work plan announced today - to introduce a mandatory lobby register on the basis of an inter-institutional agreement is misleading because such an agreement will not be binding on lobbyists. A revised lobby register based on an inter-institutional agreement
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