Lobbying and Transparency

It is a difficult subject to address, and doing so is impeded by lobbying efforts and incomplete information.

At the moment Congress was considering amendments to the Penal Code, and lobbying efforts were naturally concentrated there.

Activities relevant to the Committee Provides support to indigenous organizations in their lobbying efforts towards national governments and international institutions.

It depends how you define lobbying.

When I first entered Parliament in 1970, I would not say that lobbying was in its infancy because lobbying goes back to the 19th Century and before, but there was less organised lobbying.

Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

I can't say that I am a lobbying expert.

In 1994, lobbying efforts initiated by psychiatrist John Scialli led the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center to name an asteroid in Zappa's honor 3834 Zappafrank.

Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

They're also doing a great job of lobbying the government.

Lobbying on behalf of girls, for 0.5 billion in 2001.

Lobbying is something that is going on all the time.

This lobbying group changed its name in 1993 to BirdLife International.

NGOs, too, have an indispensable part to play in monitoring and lobbying.

lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.

There is lobbying going on all the time and on almost every subject.

On the second panel, more focussed on the control of lobbying, the staff of the European Commissioners unanimously asserted to be satisfied with the lobbying register introduced a year ago in the EU.

In Costa Rica, the rice industry took the traditional route of lobbying for protection.

This was partly due to lobbying by the scientific community on behalf of Oppenheimer.

In the US, the Hardwood Federation was established with the objective of lobbying government.

This will expose the EGF to wasteful political posturing and lobbying by countries and sectors.

MADRID The American Israel Public Affairs Committee s lobbying power in the United States is undeniable.

Backroom lobbying by powerful corporations now dominates policymaking negotiations, from which the public is excluded.

At the Centre apos s suggestion, the Secretariat has established a review and lobbying committee.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders.

Second, like the financial sector, the tech industry is enormously influential politically through contributions and lobbying.

Most of the projects and programmes implemented had been successful as a result of focused lobbying.

Your Honor, I'm simply attempting to establish Miss Partridge's motive... in taking this socalled lobbying trip.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.

For example, legal scholar Cao Siyuan began writing on, lobbying for, and organizing conferences about constitutional reform.

Vučić's administration had been lobbying other countries to vote against Kosovo's membership within the relevant UN bodies.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders. In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

Lobbying advocacy National Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and the Association of Traditional Chiefs of the Niger.

You could join other leaders in mandating, lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

Charities, campaigning groups and commercial interests also seek to influence Parliamentarians by lobbying for their point of view.

It also works on lobbying and promoting the issue of sustainable steppe land use management at legislative level.

Uribe has spent weeks directly and personally lobbying key American legislators, and he is undoubtedly his own best advocate.

The party has poured several million dollars into lobbying in the US to present the opposition as pro Russian.

UNMIL is conducting public awareness activities and lobbying to facilitate the passage of the legislation in the near future.

Moreover, those who make decisions for institutional investors often have interests that discourage lobbying for stronger constraints on corporate insiders.

The Kremlin doesn t have a monopoly on these tactics, however, and businesses have used them as lobbying tools, as well.

Further lobbying was required before funding for the new center, now known as the Ames Research Center, was finally approved.

It is also hoped that some lobbying could influence the legislation in defense of woman entrepreneur in the informal sector.