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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%.

40
declared meetings
current term
40
records since 2019
full dataset
35%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
409/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
104/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Carla Tavares, this term
40
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: 5 in Oct 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2025: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 4 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 3 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2026: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 2 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 1 declared meetingJune 2026: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJune 2025: 0% 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: 5 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Carla Tavares meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDA2
European Court of Auditors2
Eurojust2
Tabaqueira2
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat1

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

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
13 Jul 2026Magellan Circle - European Affairs Consultancy LDAMemberExchange of views on the next MFF
7 Jul 2026Gerald Loacker, Austria's ECA candidateShadow rapporteurIntroduction
2 Jul 2026European Institute of Peace MemberIntroduction
25 Jun 2026Confederação Nacional dos Jovens Agricultores e do Desenvolvimento Rural MemberExchange of views on the next MFF
23 Jun 2026European Federation of Management Consultancies AssociationsMemberIntroduction
11 May 2026Youth AgendaMemberIntroduction
23 Mar 2026TabaqueiraRapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF
16 Mar 2026The Global Disinformation Index ; Cassa Depositi e Prestiti s.p.a. RapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF
11 Feb 2026European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy MemberIntroduction
10 Feb 2026European Court of AuditorsMemberExchange of views on ECA Opinions
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
5 Feb 2026Confederação Empresarial de PortugalMemberExchange of views on several topics
3 Feb 2026SGI Europe RapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF
29 Jan 2026HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe RapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF
26 Jan 2026Fórum Académico para a Informação e Representação Externa; EUSPARapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF
26 Jan 2026UITP - International Association of Public Transport RapporteurExchange of views on the next MFF and urban mobility
21 Jan 2026European Court of AuditorsMemberIntroduction
14 Jan 2026EurojustMemberIntroduction
1 Dec 2025RESEAU DE UNIVERSITES DES CAPITALES DE L'EUROPE RapporteurExchange of views
26 Nov 2025European Cigar Manufacturers Association MemberIntroduction
10 Nov 2025International Organization for Migration (IOM)MemberExchange of views on the next MFF
21 Oct 2025European Commission's Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen; Pierre Moscovici, First President of the French Court of AuditorsMemberIntroduction
15 Oct 2025FEDARENE; European Research CouncilMemberIntroduction
15 Oct 2025The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association MemberExchange of views on the next MFF
15 Oct 2025The ONE Campaign MemberMeeting the ONE Youth Ambassadors
14 Oct 2025EESCMemberEESC´s MFF Communication
24 Sep 2025European farmers ; FEMME EMPOWER NETWORK; Guillermo Peláez (Regional Minister for Finance, Justice and European Affairs, Government of the Principality of Asturias)MemberIntroduction
3 Sep 2025ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat ; Civil Society Europe MemberExchange about the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2028-2034
2 Sep 2025TabaqueiraMemberIntroduction
25 Jun 2025Petr Klement, Deputy European Chief Prosecutor of the EPPO European Public Prosecutor's OfficeMemberIntroduction
24 Apr 2025Comunidade Internacional Bahá'í PortugalMemberIntroduction

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.

92%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
487
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the S&D majority
on 486 final texts
3
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Carla Tavares537 final votes
82%8%9%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

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.

Voted with the S&D majority48399%
Voted differently31%

Final texts where Carla Tavares differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
29 April 2026A10-0084/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
9 July 2025B10-0315/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
19 September 2024RC-B10-0023/2024 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst

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:

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.