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Ondřej Dostál, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Czechia Non-attached

Ondřej Dostál

MEP for Czechia · Non-attached · Independent · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Ondřej Dostál (Non-attached, Czechia) has declared 108 lobby meetings this term - rank 206 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 2 of 30 within Non-attached.

16% 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%.

108
declared meetings
current term
108
records since 2019
full dataset
16%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
206/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
2/30
rank in Non-attached

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Compared with the averages

Ondřej Dostál, this term
108
Parliament average
85
Non-attached average
22

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, 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 20 in May 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 2025: 3 declared meetingsMay 2025: 3 declared meetingsJune 2025: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 6 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 2 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 7 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 7 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 2 declared meetingsApril 2026: 11 declared meetingsMay 2026: 20 declared meetingsJune 2026: 6 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 8 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 2 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 50% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkSeptember 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: 20 declared in May 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Ondřej Dostál meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
Europe Asia Center3
RPP Group3
Mission of China to the EU2
Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union and Euratom2
The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment1

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 (7), Public affairs & consultancy (4), Energy (2)

Meetings by committee topic

Public Health (10), DASE (8), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (6), D-CN (5), D-RU (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Sep 2026Minister-CounselorMemberMeeting
7 Sep 2026Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of BelgiumMemberMeeting
16 Jul 2026Secretary General of Hand-in-Hand FoundationMemberMeeting
16 Jul 2026Ambassador of Pakistan to the Kingdom of BelgiumMemberWorking lunch
15 Jul 2026Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech RepublicMemberMeeting
14 Jul 2026Advisor at VR AdvisorsMemberMeeting
10 Jul 2026H.E. Ambassador at the Embassy of India in PragueMemberCourtesy visit
8 Jul 2026General Director of EACE (The European Alliance for Christian Education); Minister-Counsellor and Secretary of the Political Section of the Embassy of China in Paris, France; His Excellency Ambassador of Pakistan to the Kingdom of BelgiumMemberMeeting
3 Jul 2026H.E. Mr. Bold Luvsanvandan, Ambassador of MongoliaMemberMeeting
2 Jul 2026CEO of 89 Global; Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)MemberMeeting
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
29 Jun 2026Executive Secretary of World Young Scientist Summit (WYSS); Senior Colonel, Deputy Defense Advisor, Mission of China to the European Union Major General, Mission of China to the European UnionMemberMeeting
25 Jun 2026Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of LuxembourgMemberCourtesy visit
22 Jun 2026Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Czech RepublicMemberMeeting
19 Jun 2026Ambassador of Pakistan to Belgium Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination in PakistanMemberMeeting
8 Jun 2026Executive director, Automotive Industry Association (CZ)MemberPhone call
1 Jun 2026Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Geely Holding Group; Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Department of Zhejiang Province; Deputy Director of the Office of Global Engagement of Zhejiang UniversityMemberMeeting
30 May 2026Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) of Fudan UniversityMemberMeeting
29 May 2026Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy of Fudan University; Vice Chancellor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineMemberMeeting
28 May 2026Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Global Times; Vice President of the Chinese Academy for International Trade and Cooperation (CAITEC)MemberMeeting
27 May 2026Minister Counsellor at the Chinese Mission to the EU; Deputy Director-General of CCPIT; Senior Researcher at Xinhua News; Party Secretary of Haidian Province; Dean of the Law School of Tsinghua UniversityMemberMeeting
26 May 2026Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Executive Secretary-General of the International Cooperation Center; Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences; Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation; Director of the Sterring Committee of the International Cooperation CenterMemberMeeting
25 May 2026President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China; Dean of the Yenching Academy of Peking University; Chair of the Academic Committee, School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University; CEO of Global NeighboursMemberMeeting
24 May 2026Secretary-General of the Europe-Asia Center; Assistant Director of World Green Design OrganizationMemberMeeting
23 May 2026Associate Dean of the School of International Studies, Renmin UniversityMemberMeeting
21 May 2026Head of Health Unit, International Committee of the Red CrossMemberMeeting
18 May 2026Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in FranceMemberMeeting
13 May 2026Representatives of the Wuhan Summer SchoolMemberMeeting
13 May 2026Digital Access to Medicines EventMemberEvent organized by MEP Ondrej Dostal NI
12 May 2026Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in BrusselsMemberCourtesy visit
12 May 2026Pakistani Ambassador to the Kingdom to BelgiumMemberReception

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Ondřej Dostál 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.

93%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
507
final texts voted on
of 537

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Ondřej Dostál537 final votes
39%37%18%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

Not shown. This needs a political group whose members took a clear majority position on a text, which is not available for every member - members sitting with no group are excluded, because there is no group line to compare against.

Unlinked but matchable

5 counterpart entrys in Ondřej Dostál'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.