Mr. János Bertók:

These are very pertinent questions and there is experience of this specific to the European context or the low administration countries. In a sense there may appear to be a difference between some of the overseas countries such as Canada, the United States or Australia, but there is no real difference. It is a level playing field, no matter whether lobbying is done formally by a lawyer or somebody of a different profession. However, in the European context - this came out at super national level - there are some other considerations. In many countries the response is divided.

At a sub-national level, a few countries have a different regime and for federal governments, such as in the Canadian provinces, it may also be different. The Senator mentioned the United States and there and in Mexico there are different systems, with different levels of transparency and procedures and sometimes different types of institutional frameworks to support and monitor this. In Europe, countries use a single system covering both central and local government. However, in some countries, such as Italy, there is currently no central system and for this reason there are fragmented responses at provincial level and in certain central administration areas, for example in the agriculture sector. We can guess why this is the case. This is also the case in Germany. There, two landers or states introduced a monetary system. However, at federal level there is nothing similar.