Collective TI-advocacy action in response to EU‘s 1st Anti-Corruption Report TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL EU Office (TI-EU) Website:
Session structure Presentation: EU Report & collective advocacy opportunities Chapter advocacy action example Group discussion Break-out sessions: Other collective action opportunities: EU presidency project AdvocacyCOMS Video recording
What is the EU’s first Anti- Corruption Report anti-corruption policy launch: One year after the EU’s anti-corruption policy launch: Influencing EU policy Bringing experts together for exchange Delivering expert advice: EU Expert Groups & public consultations Awareness-raising among EU stakeholders and beyond: press conference/ media coverage Supporting/ shadowing national launches
What should be the themes? Hook for national advocacy Use your NIS findings Lobbying transparency: inadequate regulations Whistleblower protection Political party financing Public procurement
What’s the EU hook: potential future advocacy actions EU hooks by topic: Parliamentary integrity: EP Code of conduct (closed!), promotion of legislative footprint (ongoing) Whistleblowing: review of EU internal staff regulations (ongoing) Procurement: influencing EU Directives (ongoing until end of 2012!) Political party financing: campaign around upcoming EP elections 2013
What’s next: Upcoming project deliverables Project deliverables: Press conference & policy debate: ENIS Regional Report 3 Expert roundtables: topics to be defined 3 Policy papers: topics to be defined TIME TO JOIN FORCES!
What’s next: potential future advocacy actions EU news & opportunities for TI: Aim: creating synergies between regional and your national advocacy strategy to promote change bottom-up and top-down European Parliament: new Special Committee on Organised Crime, Money-laundering and Corruption: European Commission: European Citizen Initiative (ECI): topic to be discussed
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