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Member of the European Parliament · Netherlands Greens/EFA

Kim van Sparrentak

MEP for Netherlands · Greens/EFA · GroenLinks-PvdA · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Kim van Sparrentak (Greens/EFA, Netherlands) has declared 127 lobby meetings this term - rank 165 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 24 of 53 within Greens/EFA.

45% 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%.

127
declared meetings
current term
408
records since 2019
full dataset
45%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
165/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
24/53
rank in Greens/EFA

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Compared with the averages

Kim van Sparrentak, this term
127
Parliament average
85
Greens/EFA average
128

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: 2 declared meetings in Sep 2026, 75% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 11 in Jan 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 10 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 9 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 8 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 11 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 9 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 7 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 6 declared meetingsJune 2025: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 7 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 10 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 4 declared meetingsApril 2026: 9 declared meetingsMay 2026: 2 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 2 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 75% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 75% 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: 11 declared in January 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Kim van Sparrentak 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

Human rights & humanitarian (37), Think tanks & research (11), Labour & trade unions (8)

Meetings by committee topic

Internal Market and Consumer Protection (46), Employment and Social Affairs (8)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
3 Sep 2026Tasz HCLUMemberFacial recognition used for Pride ban in Hungary
3 Sep 2026Háttér Society ; Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ; Amnesty International Limited MemberPride ban/situation for LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary
13 May 2026Democratic Tech AllianceMemberTechnology
7 May 2026Háttér Society MemberLGBTI-rights
22 Apr 2026EL*C - EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community MemberDemocracy
22 Apr 2026Author & Journalist on AIMemberAI Act
21 Apr 2026European AI & Society FundMemberAI Act
21 Apr 2026SOGIESC Council of EuropeMemberLGBTI-rights
20 Apr 2026IGLYOMemberLGBTQI+ Rights
20 Apr 2026Federation of Young European Greens MemberGreens-FYEG
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
18 Apr 2026Waag FuturelabMemberDigital Sovereignty
10 Apr 2026QuantwareMemberDigital Autonomy
10 Apr 2026MondAI; Professor in Technology, Policy & ManagementMemberAI Act
18 Mar 2026TGEUMemberLGBTI-rights
17 Mar 2026Standing Committee of European Doctors MemberAI Act
5 Mar 2026European Consumer OrganisationMemberAddictive Design
3 Mar 2026Against Conversion TherapyMemberConversion practices ban
17 Feb 2026Corporate Europe Observatory MemberDigital rights
10 Feb 2026center for democracy and technologyMemberDigital Rights
5 Feb 2026CNVMemberarbeidsrechten
4 Feb 2026Stichting Stem op een VrouwMemberFeminism
28 Jan 2026The Center for Countering Digital HateMemberDigital Rights
28 Jan 2026the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Intersex AssociationMemberLGBTI-rights
20 Jan 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW MemberDigital fairness & AI at work
14 Jan 2026ArcepMemberdigital regulations
14 Jan 2026Mistral AI MemberArtificial intelligence
16 Dec 2025Repro UncensoredMemberMinorities and AI
11 Dec 2025The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association ; Amnesty International Limited MemberPride ban Hungary & Pecs Pride
11 Dec 2025WaagMembertechnology
11 Dec 2025NDPnieuwsmediaMemberJournalism and AI

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Kim van Sparrentak 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
492
final texts voted on
of 537
97%
voted with the Greens/EFA majority
on 489 final texts
14
differed from Greens/EFA
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Kim van Sparrentak537 final votes
76%11%8%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 489 final texts where more than half of Greens/EFA members casting a vote went one way, and Kim van Sparrentak 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 Greens/EFA majority47597%
Voted differently143%

Final texts where Kim van Sparrentak differed from the Greens/EFA majority

DateTextTheir voteGreens/EFA majority
20 May 2026A10-0102/2026 – Ilhan Kyuchyuk – Draft Council decisionAbstainedAgainst
29 April 2026A10-0071/2026 – Jaroslav Bžoch – Draft Council decisionAbstainedAgainst
29 April 2026A10-0072/2026 – Jaroslav Bžoch – Draft Council decisionAbstainedAgainst
26 March 2026A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAbstainedAgainst
10 March 2026A10-0025/2026 – Borja Giménez Larraz – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst
22 January 2026A10-0268/2025 – Olivier Chastel – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
23 October 2025B10-0456/2025 – Motion for a resolutionAgainstAbstained
9 July 2025B10-0316/2025 – Motion for a resolutionAgainstFor
22 May 2025A10-0083/2025 - Borys Budka - Proposition de la Commission au ConseilForAgainst
6 May 2025A10–0068/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstAbstained

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

Unlinked but matchable

29 counterpart entrys in Kim van Sparrentak'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.