Transparency in Lobbying in CEE Member States of the EU

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Created on Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:25

Project Manager: Radomír Špok

Timeframe: ongoing (April – September  2011)

Executive Summary:

„Transparency in Lobbying“ was part of an international project of PASOS and took part in several countries in Central and Eastern Europe. EUROPEUM completed the research on main features of the lobbying scene and its regulatory regime within the national context of the Czech Republic. The output is a research paper on lobbying which should include recommendations concerning the Czech Republic. National papers cover the situation in particular countries and represent a very important element in the project. They reveal the main features of the lobbying scene and its regulatory regime within the national context (historical background, defining lobbying, lobbying practice, stated purposes and known reasons for regulating or non-regulating lobbying). They were used as one of the main sources for a broader comparative paper. The project was concluded by an international event organized by PASOS.

The reason of the project is that the think tanks should be prepared to constructively participate in the on-going dialogues and discussions concerning lobbying, having in mind their concern about the transparency of this activities in the first plan, as well as their need to protect perseverance of its mostly not-for-profit form, which is the advocacy for improvement and implementation of laws and corresponding policies as done by think tanks and similar policy analysing institutions or civil society organizations.

Outputs:

• Conference Transparency in Lobbying, held at the U.S. Embassy’s American Center in Prague 14 October, 2011, organized by PASOS, record of the event here.
  

Policy papers

• Špok R. Weiss T. Kříž J. Regulation of Lobbying in the Czech Republic. History, Debate and Perspective
  

• Kalniņš V. Transparency in Lobbying: Comparative Review of Existing and Emerging Regulatory Regimes
  

Partners:

Center for Public Policy PROVIDUS (Latvia)

Center for Political Studies at the Central European University (Hungary)

The Peace Institute (Slovenia)

European Institute (Bulgaria)

International Centre for Political Studies (Ukraine)

Donors:

PASOS-Policy Association for an Open Society

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