But campaigners complain that lobbying by multinationals watered down the proposals.
But the effort was later renamed a "chips tax," skirting the issue of fat altogether, a change that many people attribute to lobbying by multinational corporations.
A refugee camp is located in the Brussels financial center, right next to the headquarters of lobbying organizations, multinational corporations, and NGOs.
The loophole was repealed in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, but was reinstated in 1997 as a temporary measure after fierce lobbying by multinational corporations.
Among the IPEA's work is the China Pollution Map, a database that allows users to search for pollution violations by company name, and the Green Choice Alliance, an NGO network that lobbies multinational companies to help reduce pollution from their Chinese suppliers.
Under pressure from an international lobby, multinational banks stopped investing in South Africa, resulting in economic stagnation.
Charles Dallara — who earlier this year stepped down as the head of the Institute of International Finance, the lobbying group for multinational banks — despairs of the depth of austerity imposed on Europe's debtor countries by its creditors in Berlin and Brussels.
Under fierce lobbying pressure from multinational sugar processors – Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Mars – the EU argues that the reform is made in the spirit of freer markets and better value for the European shopper.
American multinationals are lobbying Congress to complain about the high value of the dollar and British business groups argue that the UK's recovery is cooling as a result of the high pound against the euro.
Since this involves attempting to understand highly sensitive details of the marketing and lobbying strategies of large multinational organisations at a time of sustained political debate about the effects of alcohol on the UK, informants may be particularly guarded in interviews.
