
Member of the European Parliament · Belgium S&D
Bruno Tobback
MEP for Belgium · Socialists & Democrats · Vooruit · official EP profile
As of 7 November 2026, Bruno Tobback (S&D, Belgium) has declared 686 lobby meetings this term - rank 3 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is one of the most extensive declaration records in the entire Parliament - 6.9× the average member, and it ranks 2 of 135 in the S&D group.
77% 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 52%.
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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 November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.
Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 49 in Jun 2026.
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| Month | Meetings | Linked |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2024 | 5 | 80% |
| Aug 2024 | 0 | - |
| Sep 2024 | 32 | 66.7% |
| Oct 2024 | 31 | 78.1% |
| Nov 2024 | 31 | 88.2% |
| Dec 2024 | 24 | 48.1% |
| Jan 2025 | 40 | 79.6% |
| Feb 2025 | 42 | 76.1% |
| Mar 2025 | 21 | 84% |
| Apr 2025 | 16 | 76.5% |
| May 2025 | 15 | 81.2% |
| Jun 2025 | 23 | 64.3% |
| Jul 2025 | 24 | 82.1% |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | - |
| Sep 2025 | 31 | 68.6% |
| Oct 2025 | 15 | 75% |
| Nov 2025 | 31 | 87.2% |
| Dec 2025 | 30 | 76.3% |
| Jan 2026 | 28 | 56.7% |
| Feb 2026 | 33 | 97.3% |
| Mar 2026 | 36 | 76.2% |
| Apr 2026 | 23 | 68% |
| May 2026 | 27 | 73.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 49 | 76.9% |
| Jul 2026 | 22 | 80% |
| Aug 2026 | 2 | 100% |
| Sep 2026 | 35 | 91.7% |
| Oct 2026 | 20 | 77.3% |
| Nov 2026 | 0 | - |
Busiest month: 49 declared in June 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.
Who Bruno Tobback meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| Eurelectric aisbl | 12 |
| EPIA SolarPower Europe | 11 |
| European Energy Forum | 10 |
| WindEurope | 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
Both lists count this term. Sector pages count the full 2016–2026 record, and committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.
Most-met sectors this term
Energy (223), Chemicals & manufacturing (105), Environment & climate (64)
Meetings by committee topic this term
Industry, Research and Energy (495), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (135)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2026 | European Heat Pump Association↗ | Member | Electrification |
| 21 Oct 2026 | FuelsEurope↗; NG Nordic AS↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Belgian Recorded Music Association↗ | Member | Friends of Music |
| 20 Oct 2026 | IBERDROLA↗ | Rapporteur | Network Charges |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Competentiecentrum Europa & Internationaal | Member | Belgian Businesses in the EU |
| 20 Oct 2026 | West Vlaanderen Provincie | Member | Lunch discussion with the provincial council members of the Province of West Flanders. |
| 20 Oct 2026 | ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG↗ | Member | Circular Economy Act |
| 19 Oct 2026 | EPIA SolarPower Europe↗ | Rapporteur | Network Charges |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Brussels Climate Week Tech for Climate Action | Member | Brussels Climate Week: Advanced Manufacturing, Automation and Clean Industrial Technologies |
| 14 Oct 2026 | B Lab Company↗ | Member | Strengthening European competitiveness and resilience: the added value of a stakeholder economy |
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| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | Science Business International SRL↗ | Member | “Waste not, want not: Is a new R&I strategy needed to deliver circularity and competitiveness?” |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Vlaams-Europees verbindingsagentschap | Member | Groot Vlaams Europadebat |
| 13 Oct 2026 | DIGITALEUROPE↗ | Rapporteur | Network Charges |
| 12 Oct 2026 | BASF SE↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 7 Oct 2026 | DEME Concessions↗; A2A↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 6 Oct 2026 | S-Plus Leuven | Member | Annual visit |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Bellona Europa↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Centre on Regulation in Europe↗ | Member | Regulatory Lab on Electricity System Planning & Grid Investment in Europe |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Bellona Europa↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | Bellona Climate Action Confrence |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Bond Beter Leefmilieu Vlaanderen vzw↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Eurelectric aisbl↗ | Member | Power Barometer 2026 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S↗ | Member | Grids and electrification |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Vlaams Europees Netwerk Personen met een Handicap↗ | Member | Inclusion and Independent Living |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Institut français des relations internationales↗ | Member | Post-2030 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Bridge Carbon Limited | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc↗ | Member | Circular Economy Act |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment↗ | Member | Circular Economy Act and EPR |
| 29 Sep 2026 | International Zinc Association↗; International Lithium Association↗; European Precious Metals Federation↗; European Metals↗ | Member | Dinner debate "Sustainable Raw Materials in the Circular Economy Act" - Metals Day |
| 28 Sep 2026 | VERBOND VAN BELGISCHE ONDERNEMINGEN / FEDERATION DES ENTREPRISES DE BELGIQUE↗ | Member | Annual Meeting |
| 23 Sep 2026 | ArcelorMittal↗ | Shadow rapporteur for opinion | ETS Review |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Bruno Tobback held the seat, 606 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 606 final votes held while seated.
With and against the group
On the 575 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 October 2026 | A European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign… A10-0237/2026 · Hilde Vautmans · Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | For | Abstained |
| 17 September 2026 | Motion for a resolution on the evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up B10-0386/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 30 April 2026 | How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by… A10-0088/2026 · Carlo Fidanza · Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Against | For |
| 8 October 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain… A10-0164/2025 · André Rodrigues · Commission proposal | Against | For |
Unlinked but matchable
67 counterpart entries 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 entries)
- “GE Vernova” - likely GE Vernova (3 counterpart entries)
- “Brainport Development NV” - likely Brainport Development NV (2 counterpart entries)
These are the 3 most frequent matches, covering 9 of the 67 entries; the other 58 are not listed.
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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