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Member of the European Parliament · Netherlands EPP

Ingeborg ter Laak

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

As of 12 September 2026, Ingeborg ter Laak (EPP, Netherlands) has declared 241 lobby meetings this term - rank 56 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.8× the average member, and 20 of 185 within European People's Party.

68% 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%.

241
declared meetings
current term
242
records since 2019
full dataset
68%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
56/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
20/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Ingeborg ter Laak, this term
241
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

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: 23 in Nov 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 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: 18 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: 8 declared meetingsJune 2026: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 7 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% 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: 23 declared in November 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

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

Most-met sectors

Health & pharma (40), Environment & climate (39), Chemicals & manufacturing (17)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (124), Public Health (60), Foreign Affairs (16), Agriculture and Rural Development (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
16 Jul 2026Human Rights Watch Shadow rapporteurSyria
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
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
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
12 May 2026Genmab A/SShadow rapporteurBiotech Act
11 May 2026Humane Society International/Europe Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
5 May 2026CONAIRapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
5 May 2026MEDICINES FOR EUROPE Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
28 Apr 2026Pfizer Inc. ; Johnson & Johnson ; Illumina, Inc. ; Fleishman-Hillard ; Eli Lilly and Company ; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company ; Amgen Inc ; American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union ; Abbott ; AbbVie ; European Patients' Forum (EPF) Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
23 Apr 2026BDE Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungs-, Wasser- und Kreislaufwirtschaft e. V. RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
23 Apr 2026Novartis International AG ; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
22 Apr 2026SMEunited aisbl RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
22 Apr 2026Kaneka Belgium N.V. Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
16 Apr 2026The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
16 Apr 2026Burson Cohn & Wolfe SRL Ultragenyx Europe Gmbh; Patiëntenfederatie Nederland; European Patients' Forum (EPF) ; EuropaBio ; European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations Shadow rapporteurBiotech Act
15 Apr 2026APPLiA (Home Appliance Europe) ; The Danish Chamber of Commerce RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
14 Apr 2026The LEGO Group RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
13 Apr 2026EUCOBAT; Amazon Europe Core SARL ; Computer and Communications Industry Association RapporteurENVI Omnibus (EPR)
9 Apr 2026MVO - The Netherlands Oils and Fats IndustryMemberSchijf van Vijf (Wheel of Five)
9 Apr 2026YARA BELGIUM S.A. ; Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries ; The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment RapporteurENVI Omnibus - AR suspensions

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Ingeborg ter Laak 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.

99%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
534
final texts voted on
of 537
98%
voted with the EPP majority
on 530 final texts
12
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Ingeborg ter Laak537 final votes
87%11%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 530 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 majority51898%
Voted differently122%

Final texts where Ingeborg ter Laak differed from the EPP majority

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

Unlinked but matchable

25 counterpart entrys in Ingeborg ter Laak'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.