Compliance and enforcement: Making transparency and integrity in lobbying a reality

In recent years, countries have designed and implemented rules and guidelines on lobbying, yet, questions on how to achieve compliance remain. The challenge of cost-effectively enforcing regulations is evident and countries still struggle to incentivise compliance and to impose sanctions for breaches.This chapter analyses the measure that have been implemented in OECD countries to further compliance with lobbying rules and guidelines, the sanctions in place, and mechanisms to review the lobbying rules and guidelines.