Policy making: Constitutional Affairs Committee welcomes new "transparency" register

Policy making: Constitutional Affairs Committee welcomes new "transparency" register

(...) The joint EU "transparency" register of those wishing to contribute to the EU policy-making process, which Parliament and the Commission have agreed will replace the so-called "lobby" register, was welcomed by Constitutional Affairs Committee MEPs on Tuesday. MEPs called on the Council to join the register too, and stressed that registration should eventually be made mandatory. The new register should be available on line in June 2011.(...)