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Member of the European Parliament · Austria Greens/EFA

Thomas Waitz

MEP for Austria · Greens/EFA · Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Thomas Waitz (Greens/EFA, Austria) has declared 219 lobby meetings this term - rank 67 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.6× the average member, and 8 of 53 within Greens/EFA.

36% 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%.

219
declared meetings
current term
393
records since 2019
full dataset
36%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
67/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
8/53
rank in Greens/EFA

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Compared with the averages

Thomas Waitz, this term
219
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: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 23 in Mar 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 12 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 11 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 10 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 3 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 7 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 2 declared meetingsApril 2025: 2 declared meetingsMay 2025: 17 declared meetingsJune 2025: 9 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 18 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 13 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 14 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 7 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 9 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 13 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 23 declared meetingsApril 2026: 14 declared meetingsMay 2026: 7 declared meetingsJune 2026: 11 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 8 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 March 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Thomas Waitz 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

Environment & climate (30), Agriculture & food (26), Think tanks & research (9)

Meetings by committee topic

Agriculture and Rural Development (80), Foreign Affairs (48), D-ME (36), DSEE (3), D-MK (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
16 Jul 2026European Federation for Hunting and ConservationShadow rapporteurCAP
14 Jul 2026European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentMemberExchange of Views
7 Jul 2026Por otra PacShadow rapporteurCAP
2 Jul 2026EU Food Policy Coalition ; European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions Shadow rapporteurCAP
2 Jul 2026UK Mission to the EUMemberEU-UK Relations
2 Jul 2026Albanian MPMemberExchange of Views
1 Jul 2026Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of EuropeMemberExchange of Views
1 Jul 2026Verbände-PlattformShadow rapporteurCAP
30 Jun 2026Embassy of MontenegroDelegation chairExchange of Views
11 Jun 2026Mission of North Macedonia to the European UnionRapporteurEU accession
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
11 Jun 2026University of PerugiaShadow rapporteurCommon Agricultural Policy
11 Jun 2026Landwirtschaftskammer Österreich ; Deutscher Raiffeisenverband e.V. Shadow rapporteurAgriculture
9 Jun 2026Compassion in World Farming Brussels Shadow rapporteurAgriculture, CAP
9 Jun 2026Terra Madre Europe - Slow FoodMemberAgriculture
9 Jun 2026Parliament of North MacedoniaRapporteurEU accession
4 Jun 2026Kosovar Civil Society Foundation Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Open Societies Foundation Europe Plus E+ Institute for Good Governance and Policies in Environment and Climate Change BIRN MNEMemberExchange of Views
2 Jun 2026Skopje City CouncilRapporteurEU accession
2 Jun 2026Participant of EUVPMemberEU-Kosovo Relations
1 Jun 2026DonausojaMemberSoy, Biofuels
29 May 2026European Economic and Social CommitteeMemberExchange of Views
19 May 2026European Court of AuditorsMemberExchange of Views
13 May 2026Umweltbundesamt GmbH - Environment Agency Austria MemberGMM-Regulierung
7 May 2026BIO AUSTRIA MemberAgriculture, CAP
6 May 2026Central Bank of MontenegroDelegation chairEU accession
6 May 2026Good Food Good Farming; IFOAM Organics InternationalShadow rapporteurAgriculture, CAP
5 May 2026Federal Ministry of Finance, Republic of AustriaMemberExchange of Views
30 Apr 2026Umweltorganisation WWF Central and Eastern Erurope Shadow rapporteurAgriculture, CAP
28 Apr 2026Ministry of Ecology of MontenegroDelegation chairEU accession
28 Apr 2026European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food; Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European UnionMemberAgriculture, CAP
23 Apr 2026Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik MemberRaw materials and WB

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Thomas Waitz 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.

95%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
519
final texts voted on
of 537
97%
voted with the Greens/EFA majority
on 516 final texts
15
differed from Greens/EFA
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Thomas Waitz537 final votes
79%12%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 516 final texts where more than half of Greens/EFA members casting a vote went one way, and Thomas Waitz 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 majority50197%
Voted differently153%

Final texts where Thomas Waitz differed from the Greens/EFA majority

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

Unlinked but matchable

15 counterpart entrys in Thomas Waitz'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.