Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-05-11-Speech-3-343-000"
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"en.20110511.28.3-343-000"2
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"I voted in favour of this report proposing that the register of interest groups should cover all the different European institutions. To date, more than 1 700 organisations have been accredited as interest groups in the European Parliament, and 3 900 in the Commission. If you want to be able to make valid comments on a subject of a technical nature, you normally seek information from those people who are most knowledgeable about these issues. It has always been thus and will continue to be so in the future. Lobbies play a useful and essential role in legislative work, providing that there is transparency. In order to achieve this, the report adopted establishes new rules and creates a ‘transparency register’ which is common to both the Commission and Parliament. Citizens will find a comprehensive compilation of information about the different contact people in the EU institutions. This ‘one-stop shop’ system will make it easier to register representatives of special interests, whether from commercial or non-commercial organisations. Parliament also particularly wants all meetings between MEPs and interest groups on a particular issue to be mentioned at the end of the reports. I regret that registration is not mandatory, but as the saying goes: ‘Chi va piano va sano’."@en1
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