Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Gear, you mentioned the OECD, but with regard to the Commissioner of Lobbying's first recommendation on the default registering in-house lobbyists, representatives of the OECD told the committee that countries that do not apply registration by default and that require it only when certain thresholds are met have a lot of trouble managing and implementing their policies.
They also said that countries that have passed legislation recently, such as Portugal in 2026, have chosen not to adopt the threshold approach but rather the default registration approach. We hear that it is difficult to manage using thresholds.
Don't you think it would be a good idea to adopt registration by default and that it would simplify things?