MEP of the week
Bruno Tobback, official European Parliament portrait

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%.

589
declared meetings
current term
595
records since 2019
full dataset
76%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
3/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
2/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Bruno Tobback, this term
589
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

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.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 5 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 32 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 31 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 31 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 24 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 40 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 38 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 21 declared meetingsApril 2025: 6 declared meetingsMay 2025: 15 declared meetingsJune 2025: 23 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 24 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 31 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 15 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 31 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 30 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 25 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 27 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 35 declared meetingsApril 2026: 19 declared meetingsMay 2026: 22 declared meetingsJune 2026: 47 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 16 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 1 declared meetingSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 80% 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: 47 declared in June 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Bruno Tobback meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
EPIA SolarPower Europe9
European Energy Forum9
WindEurope8
Eurelectric aisbl8
Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium8

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

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
13 Aug 2026BSH Hausgeräte GmbH MemberCEA - PPWR - EPR
15 Jul 2026Greenpeace European Unit MemberCommemoration - EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis
15 Jul 2026ENEL SpA MemberSummer Reception
15 Jul 2026AGC Glass Europe MemberIAA and Circular Economy Act
15 Jul 2026European Recycling Industries' Confederation ; Galloo France MemberCircular Economy Act, Recycling and Industrial Accelerator Act
14 Jul 2026ENEDIS MemberIndustrial Acceleration Act
14 Jul 2026WIENER STADTWERKE GmbH MemberSummer Reception
14 Jul 2026Carbon Market Watch MemberETS
9 Jul 2026VELUX A/S (VELUX Group) ; Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc MemberHigh-level breakfast briefing on circular economy priorities ahead of the CE Act
9 Jul 2026EU DSO Entity MemberElectrification Action Plan
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
6 Jul 2026WWF European Policy Programme ; WWF Deutschland MemberEuropean competitiveness and resilience through effective nature protection laws.
3 Jul 2026SmuldersMemberSite Visit - Offshore wind
2 Jul 2026Vogelbescherming VlaanderenMemberEuropean Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to the European Commission, calling on the EU to recognise the rights of nature in law
2 Jul 2026Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and BelgiumMemberSummer Reception
2 Jul 2026Febelfin MemberSummer Reception APA's
1 Jul 2026Bureau du Tibet MemberReception 91st Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
1 Jul 2026MUST & Partners MemberETS Review and Waste-to-Energy
30 Jun 202650Hertz Transmission GmbH Shadow rapporteur for opinionGrids Package
30 Jun 2026CNC – Communications & Network Consulting AG MemberSummer Reception
30 Jun 2026Bellona Europa MemberETS
29 Jun 2026Europacable MemberIAA & WEEE
29 Jun 2026European Network of Living Labs MemberHigh level strategic dialogue: Living Labs as Strategic Infrastructures for European Policies and FP10: Advancing User-Driven Innovation
25 Jun 2026Plastics Europe MemberCEA
25 Jun 2026Back Market MemberRefurbished electronics & CEA
25 Jun 2026EU DSO Entity MemberDecentral Networks Connect Europe’s Future – Challenges and Solutions
24 Jun 2026European Energy Exchange AG ; Fleishman-Hillard MemberETS
24 Jun 2026Institute for European Environmental Policy MemberLocal participation in European energy transition: An MEP Roundtable
23 Jun 2026Vrije Universiteit Brussel MemberHorizon
23 Jun 2026Green Power Denmark MemberEnergy Solutions High-Level Meeting on the Irish Presidency
23 Jun 2026PubAffairsBruxelles ASBL MemberCan 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.

95%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
508
final texts voted on
of 537
100%
voted with the S&D majority
on 506 final texts
2
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Bruno Tobback537 final votes
85%9%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

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.

Voted with the S&D majority504100%
Voted differently20%

Final texts where Bruno Tobback differed from the S&D majority

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:

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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