nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/0c3773dcac07f533 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231219s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/0c3773dcac07f533 doi eng 342 23 Korkea-aho, Emilia Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5226-1670 “This Is Not a Foreign Agents Law” - The Commission’s New Directive on Transparency of Third Country Lobbying Korkea-aho, Emilia Verfassungsblog 2023-12-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On Tuesday, 12 December 2023, the Commission adopted its long-awaited Defence of Democracy package, which includes a Proposal for a Directive on Transparency of Interest Representation on behalf of Third Countries. Dubravka Šuica, Commissioner for Democracy and Demography seemed eager to clarify what the Directive is not. Šuica emphasised that the Directive “is not a foreign agents law”. But the more a statement is repeated, the less credible it appears. Rather, the opposite appears to be true. And so, the devil is not in the name, it lies in enforcement. Despite the Commission’s assertion that full harmonisation of the Directive prevents Member States from gold-plating or potentially worse activities, the Commission has limited control over how Member States apply and enforce their national laws. This is the biggest risk of the proposal. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Commission EU-Richtlinie Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Lobbyismus Third Country Lobbying Transparency Transparency Register Transparenz (DE-588)7507054-6 gnd EU-Richtlinie (DE-588)5098525-5 gnd Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg (DE-588)4036097-0 gnd Lobbyismus (DE-588)4185917-0 gnd Transparenz Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/this-is-not-a-foreign-agents-law/ raw object