PRCA welcomes Government endorsement of PRCA Public Affairs Code; calls on unregulated lobbyists to embrace accountability

The PRCA has welcomed the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists’ endorsement of its Public Affairs Code in its latest guidance following an industry-wide consultation. The Registrar accepted the PRCA’s central recommendation that the majority of industry codes of conduct declared on the statutory register were not relevant; and announced what amounts to a clampdown on companies’ own self-enforced Codes. In his commentary that “the current codes of conduct produced by the PRCA’s Public Affairs Board for members are relevant”, the Registrar singled out the PRCA’s Code as the only one endorsed…

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