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Member of the European Parliament · Netherlands EPP

Ingeborg ter Laak

MEP for the Netherlands · European People's Party · Christen Democratisch Appèl · official EP profile

As of 7 November 2026, Ingeborg ter Laak (EPP, Netherlands) has declared 263 lobby meetings this term - rank 65 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings, a place shared with 1 other MEP.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.6× the average member, and it ranks 21 of 185 in the EPP group.

67% 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%.

263
declared meetings
current term
264
records since 2016
full dataset
67%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 52% EP‑wide
65/720
rank, all MEPs
tied with 1 other
21/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Ingeborg ter Laak, this term
263
Parliament average
100
EPP average
108

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: 23 in Nov 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%023July 2024: 1 declared meetingAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 19 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 23 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 9 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 19 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 14 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 20 declared meetingsApril 2025: 23 declared meetingsMay 2025: 13 declared meetingsJune 2025: 4 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 13 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 8 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 8 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 6 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 11 declared meetingsApril 2026: 18 declared meetingsMay 2026: 9 declared meetingsJune 2026: 10 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 7 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%25%50%75%100%023July 2024: 1 declared meetingAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 19 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 23 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 9 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 19 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 14 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 20 declared meetingsApril 2025: 23 declared meetingsMay 2025: 13 declared meetingsJune 2025: 4 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 13 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 8 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 8 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 6 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 11 declared meetingsApril 2026: 18 declared meetingsMay 2026: 9 declared meetingsJune 2026: 10 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 7 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%50%100%023202420252026
declared meetings per month (left axis)all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)
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Declared meetings each month, and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link.
MonthMeetingsLinked
Jul 20241100%
Aug 20240-
Sep 2024250%
Oct 20241960%
Nov 20242362.5%
Dec 2024944.4%
Jan 20251978.9%
Feb 20251464.3%
Mar 20252050%
Apr 20252366.7%
May 20251376.9%
Jun 2025450%
Jul 2025475%
Aug 20250-
Sep 20251050%
Oct 20251371.4%
Nov 2025881.8%
Dec 2025862.5%
Jan 20263100%
Feb 2026657.1%
Mar 20261158.3%
Apr 20261887.2%
May 2026945.5%
Jun 20261060%
Jul 2026771.4%
Aug 20260-
Sep 2026580%
Oct 2026475%
Nov 20260-

Busiest month: 23 declared in November 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.

Who Ingeborg ter Laak meets most

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

Health & pharma (44), Environment & climate (41), Chemicals & manufacturing (19)

Meetings by committee topic this term

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (135), Public Health (66), Foreign Affairs (20), Agriculture and Rural Development (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
15 Oct 2026EuroMed Rights / EuroMed Droits⁠↗MemberEast Jerusalem
15 Oct 2026EuroMed Rights / EuroMed Droits⁠↗Shadow rapporteurTransitional Justice in Syria
15 Oct 2026Rookpreventie JeugdMemberTobacco
1 Oct 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
30 Sep 2026Stichting Woord en Daad⁠↗MemberDevelopment
29 Sep 2026Animalhealth­Europe⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
23 Sep 2026Novo Nordisk A/S⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
11 Sep 2026Open Doors VlaanderenMemberReligious Freedom
7 Sep 2026European Patients' Forum (EPF)⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
16 Jul 2026Human Rights Watch⁠↗Shadow rapporteurSyria
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
14 Jul 2026Inter Ikea Systems BV⁠↗MemberCircular economy act & ENVI omnibus
8 Jul 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW⁠↗MemberCirculaire economie & Biotech
8 Jul 2026Aedes vereniging van woning­corporaties⁠↗MemberMilieurapportages
8 Jul 2026International Federation for Rights and DevelopmentsMemberSudan
2 Jul 2026International Federation for Rights and DevelopmentsMemberSudan
2 Jul 2026Kofi Annan Foundation⁠↗MemberEPP Africa Strategy
30 Jun 2026European Centre for Development Policy Management⁠↗MemberEPP Africa Strategy
25 Jun 2026DOPS Recycling New Energy Coalition SUSTENSO INVESTAMemberCircular Economy Act
25 Jun 2026AbbVie⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
24 Jun 2026Bureau Brussel Vewin - Unie van Waterschappen⁠↗MemberClimate resilience
23 Jun 2026True Animal Protein Price Coalition⁠↗MemberFood & Feed omnibus, Livestock, CAP
18 Jun 2026LTO nederlandMemberFood & Feed omnibus
9 Jun 2026OG Clean Fuels B.V.⁠↗MemberAutomotive package, ETS
5 Jun 2026SeaO2 B.V. RWE Group Carbon cultureMemberETS, carbon removals
4 Jun 2026The Chemours CompanyMemberPFAS
3 Jun 2026Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)⁠↗MemberAutomotive package
28 May 2026De Lelystadse BoerMemberNetcongestie en waterstof innovatie
28 May 2026VABO CompositesMemberVeiligheid en defensie
26 May 2026Vaccines Europe⁠↗; Vereniging Innovatieve Geneesmiddelen⁠↗; Amgen Inc⁠↗Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
20 May 2026Glastuinbouw NederlandMemberFertiliser Action Plan & Food and Feed Safety Simplification Omnibus

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Ingeborg ter Laak 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.

98%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 6,412 held while seated
597
final texts voted on
of 606
98%
voted with the EPP majority
on 592 final texts
13
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 606 final votes held while seated.

Ingeborg ter Laak606 final votes
86%11%
For 521Against 64Abstained 12No vote recorded 9

With and against the group

On the 592 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Ingeborg ter Laak 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 EPP majority57998%
Voted differently132%

Final texts where Ingeborg ter Laak differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
15 September 2026The global role of the euro A10-0214/2026 · Rasmus Andresen · Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor
30 April 2026RC-B10-0216/2026 - Joint motion for a resolution (subject not given in the vote record) RC-B10-0216/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
28 April 2026General guidelines for the preparation of the 2027 budget, Section III – Commission A10-0044/2026 · Nils Ušakovs · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
28 April 2026Council regulation laying down the Multiannual Financial Framework for the years 2028 to 2034 A10-0105/2026 · Siegfried Mureşan and Carla Tavares · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
11 September 2025The stocktaking of the European elections 2024 A10-0156/2025 · Ľubica Karvašová · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
10 September 2025The future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy A10-0143/2025 · Carmen Crespo Díaz · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
10 September 2025The role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisis A10-0139/2025 · Marcos Ros Sempere · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
9 July 2025The Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024 A10-0116/2025 · Victor Negrescu · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
18 June 2025The implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility A10-0098/2025 · Victor Negrescu and Siegfried Mureşan · Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)AbstainedFor
7 May 2025A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world A10-0076/2025 · Siegfried Mureşan and Carla Tavares · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

29 counterpart entries in Ingeborg ter Laak's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

These are the 3 most frequent matches, covering 5 of the 29 entries; the other 24 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.