Trilogues have de facto become a routine final step of the decision making process where critical decisions are reached with decisive impacts on the stringency or effectiveness of legislation.
Their behind-closed-doors nature weakens accountability and trust in the entire EU legislative process.
Better resourced professional lobbyists already have extremely preferential access to the trilogue process, documents and decision makers.
There should be an option to sign up to automatic email updates on a particular legislative file.
Transparency requirements should apply to both political and technical meetings. The recent Volkswagen scandal illustrates that the air quality legislation was weakened to the point of rendering it ineffective at both the technical and political levels.
