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Member of the European Parliament · Czechia PfE

Jaroslav Knot

MEP for Czechia · Patriots for Europe · ANO 2011 · official EP profile

Joined 13 months agoECON

As of 12 September 2026, Jaroslav Knot (PfE, Czechia) has declared 2 lobby meetings this term - rank 638 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

Jaroslav Knot took the seat on 31 July 2025, so the term-wide average of 85 meetings per MEP and the ranks below cover a longer period than this record does; they are not a like-for-like comparison.

50% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - close to the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

2
declared meetings
current term
2
records since 2019
full dataset
50%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
638/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
74/85
rank in PfE

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Compared with the averages

Jaroslav Knot, this term
2
Parliament average
85
PfE average
30

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: 1 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: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 1 declared meetingNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 1 declared meetingMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkOctober 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkFebruary 2026: 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: 1 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Jaroslav Knot meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
European Cigar Manufacturers Association1
Counsellor of Mission of Norway to the EU1

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

Consumer & retail (1)

Meetings by committee topic

Transport and Tourism (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
25 Feb 2026Counsellor of Mission of Norway to the EUMemberInformation Meeting regarding the working on the EU Transport Policy
1 Oct 2025European Cigar Manufacturers Association MemberDiscussion about TTD in relation to the new categorization

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 3,475 roll-call votes while Jaroslav Knot held the seat, 326 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.

88%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 3,475 held while seated
290
final texts voted on
of 326
63%
voted with the PfE majority
on 274 final texts
101
differed from PfE
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 326 final votes held while seated.

Jaroslav Knot326 final votes
54%17%18%11%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 274 final texts where more than half of PfE members casting a vote went one way, and Jaroslav Knot 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 PfE majority17363%
Voted differently10137%

Final texts where Jaroslav Knot differed from the PfE majority

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