The Ad Hoc Ethical Committee was created by a Commission Decision in 2003 and is composed of three members: a former judge of the General Court of the European Union, a former Member of the European Parliament and a former Director-General of the European Commission. A Unit in the Secretariat-General of the Commission acts as a secretariat of the Ethical Committee. As of this date members of the Ad Hoc Committee include Mr. Christiaan Timmermans, Ms. Dagmar Roth-Behrendt and Mr. Heinz Zourek.

In alphabetical order

News Agencies

1. ADN KRONOS International
2. AGENZIA NOVA
3. AGI
4. ANSA
5. IL SOLE 24 ORE RADIOCOR
6. TMNEWS – ASCA
7. VITA INTERNATIONAL
8. VITA/IL VELINO

Newspapers and Magazines

1. AVVENIRE
2. EUNEWS.IT/GRUPPO L'ESPRESSO-FINEGIL
3. IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA 
4. IL FOGLIO
5. Il MANIFESTO 
6. IL SOLE 24 ORE 
7. LA REPUBBLICA
8. LA STAMPA 

TV networks

Alphabetical Listing

Agences de presse

1. Agence France Presse

Presse écrite

Presse généraliste

1. Le Monde
2. Le Figaro
3. Libération
4. Les Echos
5. L’Opinion
6. La Croix
7. Le Parisien
8. Agefi
9. Mediapart

Presse quotidienne régionale

1. Ouest-France/Sud-Ouest
2. Le Télégramme

Presse hebdomadaire

1. Le Point

Presse spécialisée

While the EU demands EU lobbyists to be transparent , the same  transparency does not apply to journalists. The argument being advanced is that such disclosure would contravene data protection.

By comparison in Canada, the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery (CPPG) provides a listing of all media accredited by name, by organization, life members, honorary members, bureau chiefs and agencies.

Source: Gareth Harding, Clear Europe Managing Director

Since May 2012, the European Commission has stopped publishing its highly-prized list of accredited journalists to the EU, making reliable figures hard to come by. However, Clear Europe has obtained a treasure trove of up-to-date statistics from well-placed EU sources who requested anonymity. Here are the highlights.

Conditions for annual EU inter-institutional media accreditation issued by the European Commission

Journalists* applying for media accreditation to the European Institutions must fulfill the following criteria:

• They must be an employee of a bona fide media organisation or a freelance journalist who regularly covers EU affairs for a bona fide media organisation.
• Be based in Brussels.
• Journalism must be their main source of income.

MEDIA ORGANISATIONS must fulfil the following criteria:

Mindset

Having the desire and motivation to exercise personal influence over journalism at the level of both the story and the institution requires a mix of awareness, confidence, imagination and ability. The idea of the “entrepreneurial” journalist is becoming a familiar one. Individual journalists in whatever area of expertise need to think of experimentation with the aim of innovation as something they practice rather than endure.

Being “Networked”

Austria

1. AHVV Verlag
2. Austrian Journalists Club
3. Fillmore
4. FJUM- Forum for Journalism and Media Vienna
5. Kronen Zeitung
6. Kurier
7. Dossier
8. Biber Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
9. Moser Holding AG
10. neopresse.com
11. NZZ Österreich GmbH
12. oe.24
13. Russmedia

Belgium

All eyes are on the next general election in 2017. But with Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) in disarray and the once-popular Green Party far from the dynamic young force it once was, some argue Merkel has little competition from righty or left. She has been tight-lipped about her intentions post-2017, but if she were to run for a fourth term she could surpass former CDU chancellor Helmut Kohl, who served for 16 years before he was ousted by the SPD's Gerhard Schröder in 1998.