
Member of the European Parliament · Portugal S&D
Carla Tavares
MEP for Portugal · Socialists & Democrats · Partido Socialista · official EP profile
As of 12 September 2026, Carla Tavares (S&D, Portugal) has declared 40 lobby meetings this term - rank 409 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 104 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.
35% 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%.
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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: 5 in Oct 2025.
Busiest month: 5 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Carla Tavares meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA | 2 |
| European Court of Auditors | 2 |
| Eurojust | 2 |
| Tabaqueira | 2 |
| ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat | 1 |
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
Human rights & humanitarian (3), Consumer & retail (2), Public affairs & consultancy (2)
Meetings by committee topic
Budgets (20), Budgetary Control (5), Development (2), Economic and Monetary Affairs (2), DEPA (1), Women's Rights and Gender Equality (1)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2026 | Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA | Member | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Gerald Loacker, Austria's ECA candidate | Shadow rapporteur | Introduction |
| 2 Jul 2026 | European Institute of Peace ↗ | Member | Introduction |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Confederação Nacional dos Jovens Agricultores e do Desenvolvimento Rural ↗ | Member | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 23 Jun 2026 | European Federation of Management Consultancies Associations | Member | Introduction |
| 11 May 2026 | Youth Agenda | Member | Introduction |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Tabaqueira | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 16 Mar 2026 | The Global Disinformation Index ↗; Cassa Depositi e Prestiti s.p.a. ↗ | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 11 Feb 2026 | European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy ↗ | Member | Introduction |
| 10 Feb 2026 | European Court of Auditors | Member | Exchange of views on ECA Opinions |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Feb 2026 | Confederação Empresarial de Portugal | Member | Exchange of views on several topics |
| 3 Feb 2026 | SGI Europe ↗ | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 29 Jan 2026 | HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe ↗ | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Fórum Académico para a Informação e Representação Externa; EUSPA | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 26 Jan 2026 | UITP - International Association of Public Transport ↗ | Rapporteur | Exchange of views on the next MFF and urban mobility |
| 21 Jan 2026 | European Court of Auditors | Member | Introduction |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Eurojust | Member | Introduction |
| 1 Dec 2025 | RESEAU DE UNIVERSITES DES CAPITALES DE L'EUROPE ↗ | Rapporteur | Exchange of views |
| 26 Nov 2025 | European Cigar Manufacturers Association ↗ | Member | Introduction |
| 10 Nov 2025 | International Organization for Migration (IOM) | Member | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 21 Oct 2025 | European Commission's Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen; Pierre Moscovici, First President of the French Court of Auditors | Member | Introduction |
| 15 Oct 2025 | FEDARENE; European Research Council | Member | Introduction |
| 15 Oct 2025 | The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association ↗ | Member | Exchange of views on the next MFF |
| 15 Oct 2025 | The ONE Campaign ↗ | Member | Meeting the ONE Youth Ambassadors |
| 14 Oct 2025 | EESC | Member | EESC´s MFF Communication |
| 24 Sep 2025 | European farmers ↗; FEMME EMPOWER NETWORK; Guillermo Peláez (Regional Minister for Finance, Justice and European Affairs, Government of the Principality of Asturias) | Member | Introduction |
| 3 Sep 2025 | ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat ↗; Civil Society Europe ↗ | Member | Exchange about the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2028-2034 |
| 2 Sep 2025 | Tabaqueira | Member | Introduction |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Petr Klement, Deputy European Chief Prosecutor of the EPPO European Public Prosecutor's Office | Member | Introduction |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Comunidade Internacional Bahá'í Portugal | Member | Introduction |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Carla Tavares 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 486 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Carla Tavares 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 Carla Tavares differed from the S&D majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | S&D majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2026 | A10-0084/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 9 July 2025 | B10-0315/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Against | For |
| 19 September 2024 | RC-B10-0023/2024 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | For | Against |
Unlinked but matchable
3 counterpart entrys in Carla Tavares's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:
- “FEDARENE” - likely European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and Environment (1 counterpart entry)
- “Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy” - likely Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA (1 counterpart entry)
- “Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA” - likely Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA (1 counterpart entry)
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.