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Member of the European Parliament · Bulgaria EPP

Andrey Novakov

MEP for Bulgaria · European People's Party · Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Andrey Novakov (EPP, Bulgaria) has declared 32 lobby meetings this term - rank 444 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 119 of 185 within European People's Party.

43% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - below the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

32
declared meetings
current term
57
records since 2019
full dataset
43%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
444/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
119/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Andrey Novakov, this term
32
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

Transparency this term

Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to September 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 11 Sep 2026: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 6 in May 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 1 declared meetingAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 1 declared meetingNovember 2024: 1 declared meetingDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 5 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 1 declared meetingSeptember 2025: 3 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 1 declared meetingNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 6 declared meetingsJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 6 declared in May 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Andrey Novakov meets most

Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.

Where the meetings cluster

Most-met sectors

Transport & automotive (10), Consumer & retail (2), Chemicals & manufacturing (1)

Meetings by committee topic

Transport and Tourism (12), Regional Development (8), Security and Defence (7)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
1 Jul 2026German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial DevelopmentRapporteurNRPP Regulation
13 Jun 2026Bulgarian Football UnionRapporteurNRPP Regulation
28 May 2026Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR); European Urban InitiativeRapporteurNRPP Regulation
27 May 2026European Business Summit Network MemberSecurity and Defence
27 May 2026North Sweden European Office; Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies RapporteurNRPP Regulation
20 May 2026ARPA RapporteurAir passenger rights
13 May 2026Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE)RapporteurNRPP Regulation
5 May 2026East and North FinlandRapporteurNRPP Regulation
16 Oct 2025Rolls-Royce MemberSecurity and defence
24 Sep 2025Bulgarian Permanent RepresentationMemberEDIP, SAFE
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
16 Sep 2025Bulgarian Permanent RepresentationMemberREACH regulation
3 Sep 2025UNIFE MemberMilitary Mobility
26 Aug 2025Arsenal JSCoMemberSecurity and defence
16 Jul 2025WiserTechMemberSecurity and defence
2 Jul 2025Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace ASMemberMeeting on defence industry
4 Jun 2025Cyprus Permanent RepresentationMemberFuture of cohesion
22 May 2025NATSIONALNA ELEKTRICHESKA KOMPANIA EADMemberEnergy Security Matters
21 May 2025Dronamics MemberSecurity and Defence
14 May 2025Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe MemberSecurity and Defence
14 May 2025Eurocities MemberRegional Policy
8 May 2025Wiser TechMemberSecurity and Defence
19 Feb 2025The Association of Bulgarian Tour Operators and Travel Agents (ABTTA)Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
10 Feb 2025European Disability Forum Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
4 Feb 2025International Air Transport Association Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
27 Jan 2025Global Travel Tech; ECTAA, Group of National Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations within the EU Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
23 Jan 2025International Air Transport Association Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
21 Jan 2025BEUCShadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
6 Nov 2024Airlines for Europe (A4E)Shadow rapporteurPassenger rights file
3 Oct 2024International Road Transport UnionMemberPreparation for conference event (Access to the driver profession and enhance training)
24 Sep 2024Bolt MemberUrban mobility services

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Andrey Novakov held the seat, 537 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.

93%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
498
final texts voted on
of 537
93%
voted with the EPP majority
on 494 final texts
37
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Andrey Novakov537 final votes
85%7%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 494 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Andrey Novakov also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.

Voted with the EPP majority45793%
Voted differently377%

Final texts where Andrey Novakov differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0336/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0334/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
29 April 2026A10-0042/2026 – Anna Strolenberg – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
29 April 2026A10-0091/2026 – Konstantinos Arvanitis – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
28 April 2026A10-0047/2026 – Evin Incir, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
11 March 2026A10-0040/2026 – Birgit Sippel – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
11 March 2026A10-0021/2026 – Irena Joveva, Mirosława Nykiel – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
10 March 2026B10-0156/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
12 February 2026A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

27 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.

Unlinked but matchable

8 counterpart entrys in Andrey Novakov's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.