Expert Group on Confict of Interest with a Special Session on Lobbying: Enhancing Transparency and Accountability, Paris, 07-08 June 2007

This Special Session on Lobbying brought together for the first time at the international level top officials from executive and legislative branches in charge of legislation and policy on lobbying. Click here for the Agenda. /  l'Ordre du jour.
This Special Session reviewed approaches and options for regulating lobbying in different socio-political and administrative contexts and gave directions for developing Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Lobbying. This would be a critical instrument for policy makers when lobbying reaches the political agenda to provide concrete options for regulating lobbying in different contexts.
For further information, please refer to the background documents and presentations.

 

Background documents:

Canada: Lobbyists Registration Act. Annual Report 2005-2006

Canada: Loi sur l'enregistrement des lobbyistes. Rapport annuel 2005-2006

EU The Need for a European Transparency Initiative. Speech by Siim Kallas (2005)

EU Green Paper. The European Transparency Initiative (2006)

EU Livre vert. Initiative européenne en matière de transparence (2006)

EU Follow-up to the GreenPaper. European Transparency (2007)

EU Suivi du livre vert. Initiative européenne en matière de transparence (2007)

EU The European Transparency Initiative. Frequently Asked Questions

French National Assembly: Motion for a Resolution on Lobbying (21 November 2006)

Assemblée nationale en France: Proposition de résolution sur le lobbying (21 novembre 2006)

Lobbying: Models for Regulation

Lobbying: Modèles de réglementation

Legislation on Lobbying in Europe

Developing a Legal Framework for Lobbying and the Registration of Lobbyists: The Québec Experience

Québec: Strategic Orientations 2004-2007

Québec: Orientations stratégiques 2004-2007

United States Senate: How much disclosure is enough?

 

Presentations:

Canada (English)

Canada (French)

EU

Hungary

Lithuania

OECD Secretariat

Québec (English)

Québec (French)
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