| On 13 October 2022, Latvia has adopted the Law on Transparency of Interest Representation with the aim of regulating any direct or indirect communication of a private individual in their own interests or the interests of other private individuals with a public authority representative in order to influence the initiation, development, taking, or application of a public decision. Information on interest representatives shall be entered in the register of interest representation, which shall be kept by the Enterprise Register of the Republic of Latvia. According to the Law, interest representatives who implement a systematic interest representation are obliged to register with the register, indicating personal identification details, the fields of interest representation, the private individual for whom the interest representation is carried out, the date of making the entry, … (Sec. 3) and a system of declaring interest representation is provided for (Sec. 4). Moreover, some obligations of interest representatives are provided for, such as the obligation to disclose to the public authority representative the private individual for whose benefit the interest representation is being carried out and the unique identification number thereof and whether the interest representative implements a systematic interest representation, as well as to refrain from providing false information, from representing opposing interests in relation to the same public decision, etc. (Sec. 5). |
Law on Transparency of Interest Representation (OP 2022/207.1) adopted on October 10, 2022 (in force since January 1, 2023)
See also: Amendments to the Law on Transparency of Interest Representation (Grozījumi Interešu pārstāvības atklātības likumā), adopted on June 12, 2025 (in force since June 28, 2025)