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"en.20110511.28.3-371-250"2
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"The transparency of political institutions is a prerequisite for legitimacy, and it is an ethical imperative. Parliament was the first EU institution to tackle the phenomenon of the growing number of interest groups at European level and, in particular, with the consequences of this development for the legislative process. After several reports and thorough discussions, the Parliament launched its register for interest representatives in 1996. In 2006, the Commission issued a ‘European Transparency Initiative’ where it proposed a common ‘one-stop shop’ register for lobbyists in the Commission and Parliament. Parliament’s answer to this Commission initiative was the report by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs on the development of the framework for the activities of interest representatives in the European institutions. The resolution was adopted in plenary on 8 May 2008. Subsequently, in November 2010, the working group was able to adopt a draft agreement on the establishment of a transparency register, as Parliament had reached its main objectives. I believe that the common register is a step towards greater transparency in the European institutions, so I voted in favour of this report."@en1
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