EU Login is the European Commission's user authentication service. It allows authorised users to access a wide range of Commission online services, using a single email address and password.
The Transparency Register contains public information – with the sole exception of some personal data, provided as part of the registration process, which is not published.
EU Login increases access security by using a technology developed and regularly maintained by a team of security specialists.
Thanks to EU Login, your access to registration data is based on a safer individual identification method.
We will no longer use email to communicate with you.
To interact with the Transparency Register, or communicate with its staff, you will use your restricted space in the register.
You will need an EU Login account to authenticate your identity so that you can submit an application to the register, update an existing registration, file a complaint or contact us.
See the EU Login user guide and FAQs.
You need an EU Login account to register your organisation.
To create an account:
- Select Register a new organisation in the site’s menu on the main Transparency Register page. You will be redirected to the EU Login page.
If you’re not redirected, go directly to the EU Login page.
Select either Create an account or simply enter your email address, select Next and follow the instructions provided.
Once you have created the EU Login account, you can go back to Transparency Register, use your EU Login credentials to log in to your restricted space and start the registration process.
Each EU Login account is associated with an individual person and their email address. That person and that email address will become the first (default) person with access rights to the registration. This information will be reflected under heading 6 of the registration ('Persons with access to the registration') once it is validated.
The system will allow a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 different users (one of them is you: the person filling in the application form) to have access to the restricted space/registration.
If needed, please provide the email addresses of any additional people (a maximum of 6 are allowed) in heading 6 of the form. Each of these people needs their own EU Login account to access the same restricted space/registration.
When you select Register a new organisation on the Transparency Register main page, you will be redirected to the EU Login page. Use your EU Login credentials to log in to your restricted space to start the registration process.
At the end of the registration process, the system will automatically link your EU Login account to the registration you completed and grant you access for future updates (people listed in heading 6 of the registration form will be informed about any update).
Each EU Login account is associated with an individual person and their email address. That person and that email address will become the first (default) person with the access rights to the restricted space/registration. This information will be reflected in heading 6 of the registration (‘Persons with access to the registration’) once it is validated.
A minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 different people (one of them is you: the person filling in the registration form) are allowed to have access to the restricted space/registration.
If needed, please provide the email addresses of additional people (a maximum of 6 are allowed) in heading 6 of the registration. Each of these people needs their own EU Login account to access the same restricted space/registration.
You need an EU Login account to access your registered organisation in the Transparency Register. This means your name and email address must be on the list in heading 6 of the registration (‘Persons with access to the registration’).
If you are not on that list and you need access to the restricted space/registration, one of the other people that has access must add your name and email address to that list.
A minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 different users are allowed to have access to the restricted space/registration.
You need an EU Login account to access your registered organisation in the Transparency Register or to be granted access to the registration. This means your name and email address must be on the list in heading 6 of the registration (‘Persons with access to the registration’).
If you need access to the registration, one of the other people that has access must add your name and email address to the list in heading 6 of the registration.
The system will allow a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 different users to have access to the restricted space/registration.
If your name and email address have been added to the list in heading 6 (‘Persons with access to the registration’), you still need an EU Login account to access the restricted space/registration. If you do not have one, you need to create one.
- Select Update a registration in the site’s menu on the main Transparency Register page. You will be redirected to the EU Login page.
If you’re not redirected, go directly to the EU Login page.
- Select Create an account or simply enter your email address and select Next to create the new EU Login account. Then follow the instructions provided.
Once you have created the EU Login account, you can go back to the login page and use your EU Login credentials to log in.
You need an EU Login account to access your registered organisation in the Transparency Register or be granted access to the registration. This means your name and email address must be on the list in heading 6 of the registration (‘Persons with access to the registration’).
That list contains people with access to the registration. If you need access to the restricted space/registration, one of the people that has access must add your name and email address to the access list.
The system will allow a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 different users to have access to the restricted space/registration.
If you have an EU Login account and you are in the organisation’s access list then once you have selected Update a registration in the site’s menu on the Transparency Register main page, you will be redirected to the EU Login page. Use your EU Login credentials to access the restricted space/registration.
You can link the same EU Login account to multiple registrations. This means that you can use the same EU Login account to access the restricted space/registrations of two or more organisations.
EU login accounts cannot be merged as they are linked to two different email addresses, so – technically speaking – two different people. However, it is possible to link one of these two EU login accounts with both registrations.
Here’s how:
You are responsible for two registrations: organisation A and organisation B, which both have registrations in the Transparency Register. You feature in the registration of organisation A as ‘Person in charge of EU relations’ and as a ‘contact person’ in the registration of organisation B, for example.
Organisation A:
Person in charge of EU relations, email: xy
organisation [dot] com (xy[at]organisation[dot]com)
Organisation B:
Contact person, email: xygmail [dot] com (xy[at]gmail[dot]com)
You only want to use one EU login account (associated with address xyorganisation [dot] com (xy[at]organisation[dot]com)) to access both registrations.
You need to:
- log in to the restricted space/registration of organisation B using the EU Login account associated with the address xygmail [dot] com (xy[at]gmail[dot]com) (as this address features in the registration of organisation B)
- add address xyorganisation [dot] com (xy[at]organisation[dot]com) to the list in heading 6 (‘Persons with access to the registration’).
If you also want to remove your address xygmail [dot] com (xy[at]gmail[dot]com) from the registration of organisation B, you must:
- log in to the restricted space using the EU Login account associated with address xyorganisation [dot] com (xy[at]organisation[dot]com) (NOT xygmail [dot] com (xy[at]gmail[dot]com))
- go to the ‘My registrations’ section and select organisation B’s registration
- delete address xygmail [dot] com (xy[at]gmail[dot]com) from the list in heading 6.
In the restricted space, select ‘My registrations’ to see all organisations to which your EU Login account is linked.
You must apply for access to the European Parliament’s premises on the EP accreditation page. You do not need to log in to your restricted space/registration in the Transparency Register to manage your requests for access to the European Parliament.
For more information, please see EP accreditation page.
The system will automatically grant access to the EU Login accounts associated with the email addresses of:
- the contact person
- the person with legal responsibility
- the person in charge of EU relations
- the person filling in the registration form (if different from those mentioned above).
These email addresses will automatically appear on your organisation’s ‘Persons with access to the registration’ list in heading 6. You can also add additional email addresses. A minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 users can have access to the restricted space/registration.
If you need access for more people, please provide their email addresses in heading 6 of the registration form. Each of these people needs their own EU Login account to access the restricted space/registration.
You can link a single EU Login account to one or more organisations listed in the register.
Your name and email address linked to the organisation that you leave should be removed from its registration. As the registration needs to be kept up to date, this should be done right after you leave the organisation.
You cannot do this yourself.
You will have to ask:
- one of the people who has access to the restricted space/organisation that you are leaving to remove your email from the access list
- someone with access to the restricted space/registration you are joining to add your email to the access list.
Interest representatives should register. This means any organisation or individual that engages in activities covered by the register.
Activities not covered by the register include providing legal and other professional advice, spontaneous meetings, making submissions and meetings that are part of administrative procedures social partners taking part in the Social Dialogue and answering requests for factual information and expertise from the institutions.
Monitoring EU law or policy developments for academic or journalistic purposes, out of personal interest or in order to exercise a right is not covered (for example, interviews by researchers or journalists about upcoming legislation, or preparing for petitioning the European Parliament).
Individuals carrying out activities in a strictly personal capacity and not in association with others are not considered to be interest representatives.
Certain bodies, such as public authorities of EU countries and non-EU countries, public authority associations and networks, intergovernmental organisations, political parties, churches and religious associations or communities, and philosophical and non-confessional organisations do not have to register, with some exceptions.
The complete list of activities not covered by the register are listed in the interinstitutional agreement (Article 4).
If only some of your activities are covered by the register, then you should only declare those activities.
The register covers all activities carried out with the objective of influencing the formulation or implementation of EU policy or legislation, or the decision-making processes of the EU institutions, except for certain specified activities listed in the interinstitutional agreement (Article 4).
These activities may include:
- organising or participating in meetings, conferences, events
- contributing to or participating in public consultations, hearings or other similar initiatives
- organising communication campaigns, platforms, networks or grassroots initiatives
- preparing or commissioning policy and position papers, opinion polls, surveys, open letters or research work.
Interest representation also occurs when people working in public affairs actively gather intelligence by monitoring the legislative decision-making cycle. This should be mentioned when registering, especially when there are direct contacts with the institutions.
If you are just starting or preparing influencing activities, you must be able to provide specific details about them.
For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part II.1).
Registration is voluntary for those involved in interest representation activities (see Articles 3 and 6 of the interinstitutional agreement and guidelines - Part II.1).
However, you must be registered to carry out certain activities for which the EU institutions require prior registration, such as meeting certain decision-makers or senior staff of the EU institutions, speaking at public events in the European Parliament or becoming a member of the European Commission’s expert groups. To promote transparent and ethical dealings with interest representatives, the EU institutions place certain conditions on their interaction with them. This is the principle of ‘conditionality’. This principle makes it a requirement for interest representatives to register in order to carry out certain activities.
Conditionality measures are rules adopted by each institution that make certain activities by interest representatives conditional on them having registered in the Transparency register. These rules are published on the Conditionality page.
The institutions can adopt complementary transparency measures to encourage more individuals and organisations to register, reinforcing transparency. Registration is not necessary to benefit from these measures.
Examples of complementary transparency are the publication by the institutions of meetings between their decision-makers and interest representatives, incentives facilitating interest representatives’ participation in public consultations and tailored information alerts which interest representatives can sign up to from the registration form.
All conditionality and complementary transparency measures adopted by the 3 main EU institutions (Parliament, Commission, Council) are published on the Conditionality page.
This page also includes measures of other EU institutions and EU countries (covering interest representative interactions with their permanent representations to the EU), where these have been notified.
Yes, you should register if you carry out activities covered by the register. Interest representatives are expected to register regardless of whether they are an individual or an organisation, their type of organisation, the size of their organisation, and the communication channels they use for their activities.
Any individuals carrying out activities in a strictly personal capacity and not in association with others are not considered to be interest representatives.
Organisations established or operating in more than one country (such as multinationals, NGOs with chapters in various countries or regions) should only register their interest representation activities once. In practice, the branch or office responsible for relations with the EU is usually the most suitable one to register, thereby covering the other parts of the organisation. When registering, you should specify which parts of your organisation are included in the registration.
For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part II.2).
Yes, clients should register because they are involved in activities covered by the register through an intermediary. When registering, you must provide information about those intermediaries, such as consultancies or law firms, that are carrying out activities on your behalf.
For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part II.5, Heading 14).
In principle, no. If you provide all the necessary information about your members, affiliates or subsidiaries when registering, these do not have to register.
However, if you are a member, subsidiary or affiliate of a registered interest representative and you carry out your own interest representation activities independently from the registered ‘umbrella’ organisation, then you should register individually.
Yes, you should register if you carry out activities covered by the register regardless of your office’s location. You will be asked to provide details about your office responsible for relations with the EU institutions (if you have one).
Yes, a single registration covers any activities involving the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. If your activities involve another EU institution, you should register and provide any relevant information about those activities.
Individual lawyers and law firms should register when they carry out activities covered by the register on their own behalf or on behalf of their clients. When registering, you must provide information about the clients you are representing with regard to those activities.
You do not have to register if you are providing legal and other professional advice in the following cases.
- The advice consists of representing clients in a conciliation or mediation procedure aimed at preventing a dispute from being brought before a judicial or administrative body.
- The advice is given to clients to help them ensure that their activities comply with the existing legal framework.
- The advice consists of representing clients and safeguarding their fundamental or procedural rights (such as the right to be heard, the right to a fair trial and the right of defence in administrative proceedings), and includes activities carried out by lawyers or by any other professionals involved in representing clients and safeguarding their fundamental or procedural rights.
Yes, you must register if your objective for this meeting is to discuss and potentially influence the formulation or implementation of policy or legislation, or the EU institutions’ decision-making processes. If you are not registered, it will not be possible for you to meet the Commissioner, or the representatives of their cabinet.
For any other scenarios or activities not covered, please liaise with the private office (cabinet) of the Commissioner concerned.
If you are bringing clients to the meeting, they must also be registered in the Transparency register. However, if you are bringing member organisations with you as an ‘umbrella’ association and have provided information on your membership, they do not have to register. If they are representing their own organisation’s interests at the meeting, they must register individually.
No, it does not cover lobbying activities carried out at national level. Such activities may fall under national legislation on national lobbying.
Interest representatives must register if they are meeting an EU government’s Permanent Representative or Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU when those officials act in their capacity as presidency of the Council. This applies during the presidency and in the 6 months before that.
EU Member States holding the presidency of the Council since July 2021 have each created a dedicated page on the relevant Presidency’s website to reflect this commitment.
Any Member State may also decide to adopt, in accordance with its national law and competences, further conditionality or complementary transparency measures concerning its permanent representation to the EU.
These measures are published on the Transparency register website. For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part I.3).
You should be registered to meet with a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). MEPs use Transparency register data to publish information about their own scheduled meetings with interest representatives about parliamentary business on their profile pages on the European Parliament website.
If you are a former MEP or you employ a former MEP, it is important to be aware of certain rules. These rules include a 6-month cooling-off period at the end of the MEP’s mandate during which they may not lobby their sitting peers. Sitting Members must respect this cooling-off period. Former Members can only register their interest representation activities and apply for access to Parliament after this cooling-off period.
You must be registered:
- if you are a speaker, moderator, presenter, orator, panellist or contributor at a parliamentary event
- if, as an interest representative, you are involved in organising an event that has been authorised by a parliamentary body or a political group, whether it’s from a logistical, practical or financial point of view.
If you are not registered or your registration is suspended on the day of the event, you will not be allowed to participate in the event. You must ensure that you have registered well in advance of the event and that your registration has been validated.
You should mention the date and title of the event in your registration under ‘communication activities’.
You can register if you clearly indicate in the registration form that you carry out activities covered by the register, you observe the code of conduct when carrying out these activities and you submit an application for registration.
Your entry will be visible to the public once we have checked and validated your registration.
No, registration is free of charge.
You must provide:
- information about your organisation: name, type of organisation, contact details, goals and mission, membership
- information about the interests you represent and the specific EU legislation and policies your activities target
- financial information, depending on the nature of the interests represented.
Make sure this information is complete, up-to-date, accurate and not misleading.
For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part I.5).
The register is public. However, not all information you provide is made public, in particular personal information, such as email addresses and contacts’ names. Fields marked with an eye slash icon are not public.
For more details on the processing of your personal data, please refer to the data protection notice.
New organisations must provide estimates for the current financial year, such as information on any EU grants they have received. If you represent clients or use services of intermediaries but you have not yet closed your accounts, you only have to give the names of those clients or intermediaries.
You can only choose the option ‘Newly formed entity’ for the first 2 years of your registration. For more information, please refer to the guidelines (Part II.5 - Heading 14).
When registering, you must select which interests you represent as an organisation or as a self-employed individual. You can choose from the following:
- you promote your own interests or the collective interests of your members
- you advance your clients’ interests
- you do not represent commercial interests.
Selecting the interests you represent is not linked to your legal status. For example, non-profit organisations should not necessarily select ’does not represent commercial interests’.
The interests you select should reflect the aim of your activities involving the EU institutions and on whose behalf you are acting.
For example, a professional lawyers’ (bar) association or medical association would normally promote the collective interests of the legal or medical profession and their members (who are self-employed lawyers or doctors and/or an individual or organisation in a for-profit business). Similarly, umbrella associations of such bars or medical associations at EU level would normally represent the collective interests of their own member associations and, ultimately, the members of those latter associations.
For example, a public affairs firm has a contract with a third party to advance its interests involving EU institutions, then they should select ‘advances the interests of clients’.
For example, a think tank whose main purpose is advancing social causes in the public interest, in the area of social housing, they should declare that they do not represent commercial interests.
For more information, please see guidelines (Part II.5 - Heading 8).
You must provide:
- details of any EU grants you have received and which have contributed to your operating costs in the relevant financial year (funding authority and programme)
- an estimate of the annual costs of the activities covered by the register
- the names of any intermediaries you use and the cost of each individual intermediary for the corresponding activities.
All amounts should be in euro.
You must provide:
- details of any EU grants you have received and which have contributed to your operating costs in the relevant financial year (funding authority and programme)
- the amount of revenue for each client (together with their name and policies targeted).
We will estimate the total annual revenue generated from the activities covered by the register automatically.
Information relating to interest representation activities carried out on behalf of a non-EU government or public authority.
All amounts should be in euro.
You must:
- provide details of an any EU grants you have received and which have contributed to your operating costs in the relevant financial year (funding authority and programme)
- specify your total annual budget and main sources of funding by category (public financing, grants, donations, members’ contributions, etc.)
- declare any financial contributions to your organisation and any interest representation activities involving individuals or organisations from non-EU countries
- enter the amount of each contribution you received that is more than €10 000 and that exceeds 10 % of your total budget and give the contributor’s name.
All amounts should be in euro.
Yes, the register allows for two interest representatives to declare the same expenditure (‘double counting’). This avoids underestimating any declared financial expenditure.
An interest representative can declare the costs of activities. Another interest representative can declare the same amount received from the first interest representative in terms of turnover (from clients) or in terms of budget (from membership fees).
For example, your company contracts a public affairs consultancy for an amount of €50 000. This amount will appear twice in the register:
- in your company’s estimate of the annual costs of activities covered by the register
in the public affairs consultancy's revenue from services provided to clients.
We recommend not including VAT in the estimates (cost, turnover or revenue from clients) as it is a tax and not a cost associated with public affairs activities. VAT can also apply at different rates and can be levied in different ways in EU countries and other countries.
You must update your registration at least once a year.
Information in the register is public and is looked at closely by stakeholders, academics, students, journalists, private individuals and others. Therefore, it is in your interest to regularly review your registration and keep it up to date.
You must update your registration at least once a year. However, we recommend you review your entire registration at least twice a year to ensure the information is up to date and relevant.
You should also consider updating your registration as soon as any information you have provided in it becomes outdated or inaccurate (for example, following changes to your structure, staff or activities).
We may contact you at any time and ask you to update your registration as part of our data quality controls.
You need to log in to update. You can update parts of your registration at any time to update or correct information in a section, for example, a change in contact person or the organisation’s name. This is a partial update.
You must carry out a (full) annual update following the closure of your financial year in order to provide the financial information for that year:
- The annual update is required once a year from all registrants
- The deadline date is one year after the date of registration, and then one year after the annual update date
- If necessary, you can perform a full (annual) update at several points in the year and each time this will change your next deadline
- You (all persons with access to the registration) will be reminded of the need to update 4 and 2 weeks before the deadline
- If you do not update your registration by the deadline, your registration will be suspended and then removed two weeks after the deadline
- This procedure is automatic and cannot be modified.
You can delete your registration at any time, for example, because the activity has ended or you no longer seek to influence EU decision-making.
Go to the ‘Register or update’ tab when you are logged in, where you will find the delete option.
You can register again when you have relevant activities to declare.
A registration might not be visible or may have been removed because:
- we have not validated the new registration yet
- the interest representative did not carry out the mandatory annual update
- the interest representative did not reply to our request to update its registration.
You can register again if you carry out activities covered by the register and observe the code of conduct. Once your registration has been validated, you will receive a new registry number.
For more information, please refer to the guidelines.
We use EU Login as the authentication method for users. You must use your EU Login credentials to access the restricted space and your registration.
If you have forgotten your EU Login password, please contact the EU Login helpdesk.
If the contact people have changed, for example, because they left the organisation, update your registration. The email addresses of those people who left your organisation should be removed from heading 6 of the registration ('Persons with access to the registration').
People with access to the registration need to be aware that no one else can access the registration. It is therefore important to update their details whenever necessary to ensure business continuity.
You should update this information, for instance, following a merger or acquisition, as soon as the change occurs. You can do this as part of the annual update option or create a new registration and remove the previous one. This update cannot be made as a partial update.
The code of conduct is a set of ethical and behavioural rules and principles that all registrants must observe to ensure a level playing field in interest representation activities involving the EU institutions. You must commit to observing these rules and principles when you register.
See the code of conduct page. It is also annexed to the interinstitutional agreement (Annex I).
If you are a client or intermediary, you must ensure that all parties in the client-intermediary contractual relationship(s) are registered. When outsourcing certain tasks to third parties that are not registered for activities covered by the register, you must ensure that they comply with ethical standards equivalent to those that apply to you.
You must also inform your employees engaged in activities covered by the register about your commitment to observing the code of conduct.
In addition, you must also inform any registered clients or members you represent as part of the activities covered about their commitment to observe the code of conduct.
Under the code of conduct, interest representatives must ensure that the information they provide in the register is complete, up to date, accurate and not misleading.
We validate a registration and publish it after confirming the interest representative’s eligibility and that the information satisfies the applicable requirements. We also carry out regular quality checks to detect any inaccuracies, errors or omissions.
When we believe that a registration contains inaccurate information, we contact the interest representative concerned to request an update or explanation. We also receive and look into complaints about a registrant’s alleged non-observance of the code of conduct. In addition, we carry out our own-initiative investigations to ensure the quality of the register’s data.
We monitor the content of the register and may investigate a complaint alleging that a registrant has not observed the code of conduct. We may also investigate on our own initiative when there is information suggesting that a registrant is no longer eligible to be in the register.
Details of these procedures are set out in Annex III to the interinstitutional agreement.
If we determine that you are ineligible because you are not observing the code of conduct, we will remove your registration.
Depending on the seriousness of the case, we may also ban you from registering again for a specified period and publish this measure on the register’s website. In such circumstances, you have the right to file a reasoned request for a review of the measure taken with the register’s management board.
For further information, please see Annex III to the interinstitutional agreement.
Complaints can be lodged by registrants or anyone else. You can lodge a complaint using the online form in the register’s restricted space/registration or the register’s website. An EU Login is needed to access the restricted space/registration and the form.
Complaints must:
- be submitted in writing, using the complaint form provided on our website
- identify the registrant in question and be clearly described
- be supported by sufficient evidence that the code of conduct has not been observed
- be lodged within 1 year of the alleged circumstances of non-observance
- include your name and contact details.
If we find your complaint admissible, we will open an investigation and notify you and the registrant in question.
If we consider the complaint to be admissible, we will ensure that you receive a copy of the complaint and ask you to provide a reasoned response by a certain deadline.
We may ask you to provide additional information and will treat any information that you indicate to be considered sensitive as confidential. You will be given all possibility to be sufficiently heard before any decision is taken. We expect you to cooperate sincerely and constructively throughout the investigation.
Please see Governance' page.
Please see the statistics page.
The Search page lets you search the register by keyword and other criteria. The EU’s official portal for European data (data.europa.eu) provides historical data from the register (since 2015).
The Annual Report on the functioning of the Register is a key source of statistics and information on the register, its content and related measures and developments. See past annual reports.
If you are a journalist, please contact the press services of the relevant institution for your question:
- European Parliament spokespersons service
- Council spokespersons service
- Commission spokespersons service.
If you are a student or researcher, send us a short description of your research and your questions to the secretariat using the Contact us form (requires EU Login authentication).
For other questions, you can also use the Contact us form (requires EU Login authentication).
You should deal directly with the European Parliament accreditation service to obtain access as a registered interest representative. You do not need to log into the Transparency register to manage your accreditation.
For more information, please refer to the EP accreditation page.
No, the Council does not issue permanent access badges to visitors. Access to its premises is granted on a temporary and ‘need-to-enter’ basis and is subject to Council security rules. Contact:access [dot] generalconsilium [dot] europa [dot] eu (access[dot]general[at]consilium[dot]europa[dot]eu).
No, the Commission does not issue permanent access badges to outside visitors. Access to its premises is granted on a ‘need-to-enter’ basis.
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