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Member of the European Parliament · Austria S&D

Günther Sidl

MEP for Austria · Socialists & Democrats · Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Günther Sidl (S&D, Austria) has declared 61 lobby meetings this term - rank 344 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 87 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

31% 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%.

61
declared meetings
current term
249
records since 2019
full dataset
31%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
344/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
87/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Günther Sidl, this term
61
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: 6 in Jan 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 6 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 2025: 2 declared meetingsMay 2025: 4 declared meetingsJune 2025: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 5 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 6 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 1 declared meetingMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 3 declared meetingsMay 2026: 1 declared meetingJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 6 declared in January 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Günther Sidl meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
VÖWG3
Enterprise Mobility3
Österreichs E-Wirtschaft2
FOUR PAWS Animal Welfare ASBL2
AVL List GmbH1

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

Business federations & chambers (4), Chemicals & manufacturing (4), Energy (4)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (42), Industry, Research and Energy (13), Public Health (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
15 Jul 2026VÖWGMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
9 Jul 2026Novartis Pharma GmbHMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
8 Jul 2026Umweltschutzorganisation GLOBAL 2000/Friends of the Earth AustriaMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
1 Jul 2026TANN Holding GmbHMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
12 Jun 2026Österreichs E-Wirtschaft MemberGeneral Exchange of Views
6 May 2026Kapsch TrafficCom AGMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
29 Apr 2026MAHLE International GmbHMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
20 Apr 2026Prewave GmbHMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
1 Apr 2026Essity Austria GmbHMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
19 Mar 2026Enterprise MobilityMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 Mar 2026Österreichische Apothekerkammer MemberGeneral Exchange of Views
4 Mar 2026Greenpeace in Zentral - und OsteuropaMemberGeneral exchange of views
26 Feb 2026European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals MemberWasserrahmen-RL
13 Nov 2025PHARMIG - Verband der pharmazeutischen Industrie Österreichs MemberGeneral Exchange of Views
7 Nov 2025FOUR PAWS Animal Welfare ASBLMemberFur Farming in the EU
16 Oct 2025ECMAMemberGeneral exchange of views
15 Oct 2025Philip Morris; VÖWGMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
9 Oct 2025Mondelez Europe GmbH MemberGeneral exchange of views
30 Sep 2025Enterprise MobilityMemberGeneral exchange of views
17 Sep 2025Bahai Internaional CommunityMemberGeneral exchange of views
10 Sep 2025REWE ZENTRALFINANZ eGMemberGeneral exchange of views
9 Sep 2025Flexible Packaging Europe MemberGeneral exchange of views
4 Sep 2025Trainline SAS MemberGeneral exchange of views
3 Sep 2025ViatrisMemberGeneral exchange of views
24 Jul 2025Alber & Geiger MemberGeneral Exchange of Views
22 Jul 2025Österreichischen Vereinigung für das Gas- und WasserfachMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
15 Jul 2025Pure Storage, Inc.MemberGeneral Exchange of Views
14 Jul 2025EUMANS Initiative Polar Bear ProtectionMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
2 Jul 2025Enterprise MobilityMemberGeneral Exchange of Views
18 Jun 2025TotalEnergies SE ; Teneo Brussels MemberGeneral exchange of views

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Günther Sidl 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
489
final texts voted on
of 537
97%
voted with the S&D majority
on 487 final texts
16
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Günther Sidl537 final votes
81%8%9%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 487 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Günther Sidl 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 majority47197%
Voted differently163%

Final texts where Günther Sidl differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
20 May 2026A10-0120/2026 – Stéphanie Yon-Courtin – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
30 April 2026A10-0088/2026 – Carlo Fidanza – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
26 March 2026A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
16 December 2025A10-0230/2025 – Hana Jalloul Muro – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
16 December 2025A10-0254/2025 – Gabriel Mato – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
23 October 2025Commission proposalAgainstFor
23 October 2025B10-0456/2025 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
10 September 2025A10-0143/2025 - Carmen Crespo Díaz - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)AgainstFor
8 July 2025A10-0121/2025 – Beata Szydło – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)AgainstFor

6 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.

Unlinked but matchable

11 counterpart entrys in Günther Sidl'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.