The 2006 edition of the Worst Lobby Award plans to grant a double Prize:
the worst EU lobbying, awarded for the lobbyist or lobby group using the most deceptive, misleading, hypocritical and
irresponsible tactics.
The winner is ExxonMobil for continuing to manipulate the EU debate on climate change, while keeping much of this funding away from public scrutiny.
the Worst Privileged Access prize will be awarded to an EU institution or EU official "who has their ears a little too open for one side of the story."
The Winner is DG Entreprise for manipulating its stakeholder consultation process to legitimise its own controversial proposal for a single European patent system.
The 2006 nominees are proposed by all members of the public through an online consultation. Although the deadline is gone, the public will be able to vote online between November 6th and December 1st 2006.
The 2005 award was won by the Campaign for Creativity. C4C is in fact a public affairs consultancy Campbell Gentry in London, with undisclosed financial support from Microsoft and other software multinationals.
