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EU: EXPERT GROUPS: Ombudsman: Commission claims its house is in order, rejects key Ombudsman recommendations

05 June 2015

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"The European Commission has finally responded to the Ombudsman investigation into its advisory groups (link is external), but the answer is a serious anti-climax and puts a big question mark over Vice-President for Transparency Frans Timmermans' commitment to tackling excessive industry influence within these groups.... Timmermans flatly rejects the two main recommendations: that groups need to be more balanced and that horizontal rules are needed across all directorates general (DGs) to ensure the problem is tackled across the board."

See the full text: Commission claims its house is in order, rejects key Ombudsman recommendations (Corporate Observatory Europe, link)

And see: Commission's response to the Ombudsman's draft report (pdf)

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