The ALTER-EU report "Secrecy and corporate dominance - a study on the composition and transparency of European Commission Expert Groups" reveals that industry controls a number of the Commission’s most controversial Expert Groups, including advisory groups on issues such as “biotechnology”, “clean coal” and “car emissions”.

The European Transparency Initiative, set up to improve the transparency of lobbying of the EU, is in danger of creating a lobbying register that would achieve nothing of substance, write the the steering committee of ALTER-EU in an open letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barrosso.