The European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) is a Brussels-based organisation which represents full-service advertising and media agencies and agency associations across Europe. EACA promotes honest, effective advertising, high professional standards and awareness of the contribution of advertising in a free market economy and encourages close co-operation between agencies, advertisers and media in European advertising bodies.

The European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA) is a non-profit association currently representing 5100 national, regional and local newspapers. These daily, weekly and Sunday titles are published in 28 countries where ENPA’s members are operating in their national markets. ENPA members are the national newspaper publishers’ associations which are representing the interests of the newspapers in their respective countries.

EBU’s Role in Brussels

Among the objectives defined by its statutes, the EBU ‘must act as a professional interlocutor with European institutions and international organisations and, where appropriate contribute to the drafting of legal instruments, and the establishment of standards and norms relating to broadcasting with a view to safeguarding and furthering the interests of its members'.

Lobbying is not regulated in Croatia. There is no obligation for lobbyists to be registered and no transparency standards are set in this field. Although over time there has been some reflection at government level on the possible regulation of lobbying, no legislative initiative has materialised to date. Some ad-hoc initiatives are being implemented, such as that of the Croatian Society of Lobbyists consisting of 80 members, which has taken steps to promote ethics and transparency in lobbying activities, including the setting-up of a voluntary registration system

Public Administration

Should Lobbyists in the EU paid by foreigners be required to do so and to list their foreign clients as in the United States? Indeed, in the United States, foreign agents not only are required to list their clients, they also have to reveal their activities and their fees "to ensure that the Government and the people of the United States are informed of the identity of the persons engaging in political activities for or on behalf of foreign governments, foreign political parties and other foreign principals.

There is a gap in Montenegro between the democratic values enshrined in the Constitution and political reality. This reality shows an unbalanced system with a clear supremacy of the executive branch directly/indirectly controlling the other two branches.

A new version of the EU Transparency Register is online since 27 January 2015..This 'second generation' of the Register implements the provisions of the revised Inter-institutional Agreement signed between the European Parliament and the European Commission in April 2014. As of 27 February 2015 there are 7917 registrants in the Register.

The fight against corruption has been a priority on the political agenda in Serbia since 2002 and an important pre-condition for accession to the European Union. In recent years, Serbia has strengthend the legislative and institutional framework for fighting corruption and, in the last two years, has launched an anti-corruption campaign resulting in an increasing number of corruption related prosecutions and highly publicised arrests of prominent political figures and former government officials.

Lobbying is not regulated in the Czech Republic. There is no specific obligation for registration of lobbyists or reporting of contacts between public officials and lobbyists.

There is little understanding of who the lobbyists are and how does lobbying work and there is no history of transparent and fair public policy-making. Lobbying takes place mostly as a PR activity. There is also an unfairness in preferential access to politicians. In other words, those who can “purchase” their way to decision-makers are likely to find more decision being reached in their favor.