Lobbying Monitoring

Analysis of entries and passes to Wiejska Street

Numbers don't lie. Throughout the whole of 2023, we recorded exactly 142 entries by individuals listed in the register of entities performing professional lobbying activities. Our team, consisting of 4 analysts, daily checks attendance lists and issued periodic passes. We don't play at guessing. We collect hard data on who visits the building on Wiejska Street in Warsaw and how often. Every name goes into our database, which we update every Tuesday at 10:00 AM.

Participation in parliamentary committees

The real work on law takes place in committees. We have scrutinized 28 standing parliamentary committees, focusing on those where external advisors appear most frequently. In Sejmometr Media reports, you will find precise summaries: how many times a given lobbyist spoke and what specific amendments they suggested. In the last quarter of 2024, we detected 17 cases where a lobbyist's argumentation was transferred almost word-for-word into the draft law. We verified this in tables and compared source texts.

Graphical maps of connections

Instead of hundreds of pages of minutes, we provide one specific chart. It shows the relationships between lobbyists and rapporteur MPs. We use simple dots and lines so you can immediately see who spoke with whom during work on the labor code amendment or the energy act. We usually prepare such a summary within 4 business days of the completion of the project's third reading. No political jargon – just facts about who actually participated in writing the regulations.

What will you find in our report?

• Summary of the 12 most active interest groups in a given month.
• Exact dates and times of entries to parliamentary buildings broken down by MP offices.
• Analysis of 3.4 thousand pages of transcripts, from which we extract only key statements by advisors.
• Comparison of the original draft law with the version after lobbying amendments were applied.

Transparent data instead of guesswork

We have been operating since August 2018, and since then, we have gathered data on 47 permanent lobbying entities. Our work is not just statistics; it is monitoring real influence on the economy. To be honest, sometimes we are surprised ourselves at how quickly some suggestions become binding law. If you need to check a specific industry, for example, pharmaceutical or real estate development, we will pull historical data for you from the last 3 years. Only concrete data allows you to understand why regulations look the way they do.

P.S. Our summaries also include meetings in extraordinary subcommittees, which are often overlooked by major news outlets.