
Member of the European Parliament · Belgium S&D
Bruno Tobback
MEP for Belgium · Socialists & Democrats · Vooruit · official EP profile
As of 14 September 2026, Bruno Tobback (S&D, Belgium) has declared 589 lobby meetings this term - rank 3 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is one of the most extensive declaration records in the entire Parliament - 6.9× the average member, and 2 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.
76% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - above the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.
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Compared with the averages
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: 47 in Jun 2026.
Busiest month: 47 declared in June 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Bruno Tobback meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| EPIA SolarPower Europe | 9 |
| European Energy Forum | 9 |
| WindEurope | 8 |
| Eurelectric aisbl | 8 |
| Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium | 8 |
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
Energy (198), Chemicals & manufacturing (80), Environment & climate (43)
Meetings by committee topic
Industry, Research and Energy (435), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (110)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH ↗ | Member | CEA - PPWR - EPR |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Greenpeace European Unit ↗ | Member | Commemoration - EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis |
| 15 Jul 2026 | ENEL SpA ↗ | Member | Summer Reception |
| 15 Jul 2026 | AGC Glass Europe ↗ | Member | IAA and Circular Economy Act |
| 15 Jul 2026 | European Recycling Industries' Confederation ↗; Galloo France ↗ | Member | Circular Economy Act, Recycling and Industrial Accelerator Act |
| 14 Jul 2026 | ENEDIS ↗ | Member | Industrial Acceleration Act |
| 14 Jul 2026 | WIENER STADTWERKE GmbH ↗ | Member | Summer Reception |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Carbon Market Watch ↗ | Member | ETS |
| 9 Jul 2026 | VELUX A/S (VELUX Group) ↗; Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc ↗ | Member | High-level breakfast briefing on circular economy priorities ahead of the CE Act |
| 9 Jul 2026 | EU DSO Entity ↗ | Member | Electrification Action Plan |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Jul 2026 | WWF European Policy Programme ↗; WWF Deutschland ↗ | Member | European competitiveness and resilience through effective nature protection laws. |
| 3 Jul 2026 | Smulders | Member | Site Visit - Offshore wind |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen | Member | European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to the European Commission, calling on the EU to recognise the rights of nature in law |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium | Member | Summer Reception |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Febelfin ↗ | Member | Summer Reception APA's |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Bureau du Tibet ↗ | Member | Reception 91st Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama |
| 1 Jul 2026 | MUST & Partners ↗ | Member | ETS Review and Waste-to-Energy |
| 30 Jun 2026 | 50Hertz Transmission GmbH ↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | Grids Package |
| 30 Jun 2026 | CNC – Communications & Network Consulting AG ↗ | Member | Summer Reception |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Bellona Europa ↗ | Member | ETS |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Europacable ↗ | Member | IAA & WEEE |
| 29 Jun 2026 | European Network of Living Labs ↗ | Member | High level strategic dialogue: Living Labs as Strategic Infrastructures for European Policies and FP10: Advancing User-Driven Innovation |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Plastics Europe ↗ | Member | CEA |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Back Market ↗ | Member | Refurbished electronics & CEA |
| 25 Jun 2026 | EU DSO Entity ↗ | Member | Decentral Networks Connect Europe’s Future – Challenges and Solutions |
| 24 Jun 2026 | European Energy Exchange AG ↗; Fleishman-Hillard ↗ | Member | ETS |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Institute for European Environmental Policy ↗ | Member | Local participation in European energy transition: An MEP Roundtable |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel ↗ | Member | Horizon |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Green Power Denmark ↗ | Member | Energy Solutions High-Level Meeting on the Irish Presidency |
| 23 Jun 2026 | PubAffairsBruxelles ASBL ↗ | Member | Can Europe decarbonise without deindustrialising? Evidence from ETS and CBAM |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Bruno Tobback 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.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
With and against the group
On the 506 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Bruno Tobback 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.
Final texts where Bruno Tobback differed from the S&D majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | S&D majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2026 | A10-0088/2026 – Carlo Fidanza – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Against | For |
| 8 October 2025 | A10-0164/2025 – André Rodrigues – Commission proposal | Against | For |
Unlinked but matchable
64 counterpart entrys in Bruno Tobback's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:
- “CEDEC” - likely European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies (4 counterpart entrys)
- “GE Vernova” - likely GE Vernova (3 counterpart entrys)
- “Brainport Development NV” - likely Brainport Development NV (2 counterpart entrys)
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.
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