Friendship and intergroups declarations 2022
Dear Madam, Sir,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
According to the rules of procedure article 35, Quaestors are supposed to keep a register of declarations when it comes to:
1. Intergroups annual declaration of any support, whether in cash or in kind (e.g. secretarial assistance), which, if offered to Members as individuals.
2. Other unofficial groupings [Friendship groups] shall also be required to declare, by the end of the following month, any support, whether in cash or in kind, which Members have not declared individually.
On 31 August 2021, Parliament informed a citizen who requested the above information "that no declaration related to unofficial groupings has been submitted since 1 December 2019."
I would like to request all documents related to the above-mentioned register since 31 August 2021.
Sincerely
Peter Teffer
Our reference: 2022-1486
Dear Mr Teffer Peter,
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TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
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Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
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Our reference: 2022-1486
Dear Mr Teffer,
Thank you for contacting the Transparency Unit of the European Parliament.
Further to your application submitted under [1]Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 requesting public access to all annual declarations that
intergroups and unofficial groupings shall make under [2]Rule 35 of
Parliament's Rules of Procedure, made since 31 August 2021, Parliament has
identified the following:
- Within a [3]webpage on the EP's website, the most recent
declaration of financial interests (DFIs) of each intergroup are publicly
available. Since there has only been one annual campaign since 31 August
2021 (namely in the spring of 2022), there is in most cases only one DFI
per intergroup between then and now.
- One intergroup, i.e. the intergroup for Sustainable, Long-term
investments & Competitive European Industry, has sent an additional update
between August 2021 and now, hence the previous version of that
intergroup's DFI is the only one not currently online (but it was before
it was replaced). Please find the previous DFI for intergroup 09 attached
and published [4]here. The publication should be available within the next
24h.
- As regards unofficial groupings, no DFIs have been submitted
since 31 August 2021. As per Rule 35, Members are advised to include any
support received by unofficial groupings in their individual DFIs
(generally, section G). All the individual declarations made by MEPs are
all public and online, and can be found on each MEP [5]webpage, by
clicking on their name and on the 'declarations' tab on the right.
On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Please do not hesitate to come back to us if there are
other specific Parliament documents you would like to request access to.
Kind regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[6][European Parliament request email]
[7]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb
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