Proposition visant à insérer dans le Règlement de la Chambre des représentants un article relatif au registre des lobbies.
General information ¶
- Authors
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CD&V
Franky
Demon
Ecolo Jean-Marc Nollet
LE Catherine Fonck
MR Emmanuel Burton, Gautier Calomne
N-VA Brecht Vermeulen
Open Vld Katja Gabriëls
PS | SP André Frédéric - Submission date
- Nov. 29, 2017
- Official page
- Visit
- Status
- Adopted
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- interest group political morality parliamentary rules of procedure
Voting ¶
- Voted to adopt
- Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP DéFI Open Vld N-VA MR PVDA | PTB PP
- Abstained from voting
- ∉ VB
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Discussion ¶
July 17, 2018 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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Veerle Wouters ∉ ⚙
We have also submitted an amendment to this proposal. We find it very regrettable that this lobby registry only records the House of Representatives. However, the opinion of the Federal Deontological Commission is much wider. We therefore believe that every legislative initiative — a bill or draft law — should publish a list of advocates.
For the lobby registry, the mustard was taken for a piece from the European Parliament and the European Commission. The big gap in this story is that it only applies to the people’s representatives, to the members of this House. Nothing will change for the government.
You all know that we have questioned the Prime Minister on this issue several times. The answer remains out. They also have a good ride around the problem. I think therefore that we will be allowed to whisper at a proposal from the government to set up such a lobbying register for the bills that it submits to this Chamber.
As a member of parliament, we must now report every discussion and every conversation within the framework of a bill. We are obliged to disclose all our contacts, while we know that this is the government’s shaking and injection and that, although the influence on the cabinet is many times greater than that of the parliamentarians, the rule would not apply there.
Therefore, we want to make a change in the Rules of Procedure. We propose to add a second paragraph, which stipulates that also in each draft law from now on the indication must be made which organizations or interest organizations have been part of the basis, thus also cabinet employees. Thus there is transparency in the draft laws and not only in the proposals of parliamentarians.
I hope that all Members of Parliament can rely on this so that not only we are restricted and controlled but that this rule also applies to the members of the government.