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K-Monitor

We at K-Monitor firmly believe that corruption is a problem that affects all parts of the society and harms everyone regardless of their beliefs, ethnicity, gender or political orientation.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

12 Oct 2023 · Situation in Hungary

Meeting with Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Amnesty International Limited and

7 Sept 2023 · Situation in Hungary

Meeting with Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Amnesty International Limited and

14 Jul 2023 · Situation in Hungary

Meeting with Dragoş Pîslaru (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union

23 Jan 2023 · Transparency provisions in the RRF and REPowerEU Regulations

Response to 8th Amendment to Annex II to Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of life vehicles

21 Jun 2022

K-Monitor is participating in this public consultation on the Open Data Directive, with respect to the high value dataset on Companies and Company Ownership, as K-Monitor believes that open company data brings multiple important benefits to society: Discovery and deterrence of money laundering, which costs the EU almost €200 billion per year; Decrease of corruption in public procurement, which costs the EU around 5 billion euro per year; Business opportunities worth thousands of millions of euros (in the UK opening the company register created business opportunities worth an estimated €780 million); Reduced time and costs for Europe’s 24 million SMEs in reporting and checking ownership of other companies. The draft Implementing Regulation calls for the publication of only basic company information and company documents, without the names of company legal owners, legal representatives, and beneficial owners. This would render the dataset ineffective: CSOs and journalists would not have access to the data they need to investigate corruption, and SMEs would not be able to carry out proper due diligence on potential partners. Yet, those who can pay for this data are able to obtain it in most EU Member States. In countries which do provide full access to this data for free, it has only been beneficial with no negative consequences. K-Monitor calls on the Commission to act on the promise of the Open Data Directive and to include in the Implementing Regulation a requirement to open up the following data free of charge (note: data marked * is already in the Commission’s draft): Basic Information Name of the company * Company status* Founding date Cessation date (if applicable) Historical names Registered Address(es) * Legal form * Identifiers (registration or company number * / VAT number/phone number/ email) Data fromVIES Member State where registered * Activity Code using the NACE code * Number of employees Turnover Capital Detailed information on branches All changes (to individual companies & list of companies dissolved) with date of last update Name(s) of company legal representative(s) Name of company's directors Names and details of authorised legal representatives with appointment and termination dates All changes and date of the last update Documents and Accounts Legal entities Accounting documents, including consolidated financial statements, non-financial statements, management reports, transfer prices reports, and other reports Detailed data on branches Intra-group transactions Date of the last update Other company documents provided to the authority Ownership Name of the legal owners and beneficial owners Share (percentage) of ownership, and nature and extent of Beneficial Interest held (in shareholding and/or voting rights) as well as legal ownership Start (and end date) of the beneficial owner relationship Month and Year of birth Nationality Country of residence Owner identifier Names of shareholders Country of residence of the shareholders/owners Capital links between companies All changes and date of the last update Insolvency Type of insolvency proceeding Time limit for lodging claims Date of closing insolvency proceedings The court where proceedings is to be lodged All changes and date of the last update Furthermore, we call for: Data published under fully open licences permitting reuse and processing with no limits such as attribution. Requirement to move towards the digital filing of documents permitting company documents to be available in machine readable and eventually in fully open formats, by maximum 2030. Online databases searchable by selection of any or all fields with results viewable online or exportable as open data. If the Commission truly wants to create an EU that is hostile to money-laundering, corruption, and tax evasion, it should expand the Implementing Regulation to include company ownership information.
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Meeting with Mirzha De Manuel (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

10 Nov 2021 · Anti-corruption related issues connected to the Hungarian RRP