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EU: MEPs water down ethics rules

01 May 2012

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Parliament's leadership exempts hotel rooms costing less than €300 a night from transparency requirements.

See: Full article (European Voice, link)

See also: Greens-EFA’s press releases: European Parliament transparency - Centre right MEPs vote to keep details of industry-funded jollies opaque (link)

The European Parliament's bureau last night voted to overturn the essence of provisions in the MEP code of conduct aimed at ensuring full transparency when MEPs accept gifts in the form of travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses from third parties. The outcome, which was determined by a centre right majority on the EP's bureau, ignored the advice of the EP's ethics committee, which had recommended full transparency for such trips.

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