6 months after QatarGate: only 2 of 14 EP integrity reforms in force
6 months after QatarGate only 2 of 14 reforms of Roberta Metsola are in force 🟢 We have to clean up faster! Urgently missing:
🔴 independent enforcement of lobby rules by an EU Ethics Body
🔴 all MEPs publish their lobby meetings
🔴 MEPs’ disclose their assets
our analysis 👇
| 14 point plan and other relevant EP integrity reforms / 6 June ‘23 | status |
| 1. Cooling off for former MEPs (6 months) | 🟢 |
| 2. All integrity information on one page on EP homepage | 🔴 |
| 3. No event or speaker role in EP for lobbyists without registration | 🟢 |
| 4. Mandatory declaration of lobby meetings by all MEPs and staff 📌 | 🔴 |
| 5. Ban on friendship groups with third countries 📌 | 🔴 |
| 6. Access log for all visitors of the EP | 🟡 |
| 7. Adapt access rights for ex MEPs to cooling off 📌 | 🔴 |
| 8. Oblige MEPs to solve conflict of interests (not just declare them) 📌 | 🔴 |
| 9. MEPs to add details to their financial interest declarations 📌 | 🔴 |
| 10. Strengthen EP whistleblower protection (in line with EU Directive) | 🔴 |
| 11. Strengthening EP Ethics Committee with a right of initiative 📌 | 🔴 |
| 12. Apply current rules on Human Rights work | 🟡 |
| 13. Maintain contacts with national authorities against corruption | 🟡 |
| 14. Extend possibility to sanction MEPs on more rules 📌
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| disclose MEPs assets 📌
[The EP] Believes that a declaration of assets by Members at the beginning and end of each mandate would offer additional safeguards against corruption, following the example of many Member States; (QatarGate EP resolution 15.12.2022)
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| ban all paid MEP lobby side jobs 📌
[The EP] calls, in order to limit potential conflicts of interest, for a ban on Members of the European Parliament performing paid side jobs or activities on behalf of organisations or individuals covered by the scope of the Transparency Register; (Ethics Body reso 16.02.23)
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| set up an independent EU Ethics Body
EP adopted position 16 September 2021, awaiting Commission proposal this 7 / 8 June ’23
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🟢= adopted and in force, 🔴= not yet, 🟡= unclear / assessment by ue.ap1714162984orue.1714162984lrapo1714162984rue@d1714162984nuerf1714162984.lein1714162984ad1714162984
📌= to be regulated in the EP rules of procedure, currently under negotiation in a working group of AFCO