
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%.
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Compared with the averages
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.
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
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | European Federation for Hunting and Conservation | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 14 Jul 2026 | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Por otra Pac | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 2 Jul 2026 | EU Food Policy Coalition ↗; European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions ↗ | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 2 Jul 2026 | UK Mission to the EU | Member | EU-UK Relations |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Albanian MP | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Verbände-Plattform | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Embassy of Montenegro | Delegation chair | Exchange of Views |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Mission of North Macedonia to the European Union | Rapporteur | EU accession |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2026 | University of Perugia | Shadow rapporteur | Common Agricultural Policy |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Landwirtschaftskammer Österreich ↗; Deutscher Raiffeisenverband e.V. ↗ | Shadow rapporteur | Agriculture |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Compassion in World Farming Brussels ↗ | Shadow rapporteur | Agriculture, CAP |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Terra Madre Europe - Slow Food | Member | Agriculture |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Parliament of North Macedonia | Rapporteur | EU accession |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Kosovar 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 MNE | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Skopje City Council | Rapporteur | EU accession |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Participant of EUVP | Member | EU-Kosovo Relations |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Donausoja | Member | Soy, Biofuels |
| 29 May 2026 | European Economic and Social Committee | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 19 May 2026 | European Court of Auditors | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 13 May 2026 | Umweltbundesamt GmbH - Environment Agency Austria ↗ | Member | GMM-Regulierung |
| 7 May 2026 | BIO AUSTRIA ↗ | Member | Agriculture, CAP |
| 6 May 2026 | Central Bank of Montenegro | Delegation chair | EU accession |
| 6 May 2026 | Good Food Good Farming; IFOAM Organics International | Shadow rapporteur | Agriculture, CAP |
| 5 May 2026 | Federal Ministry of Finance, Republic of Austria | Member | Exchange of Views |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Umweltorganisation WWF Central and Eastern Erurope ↗ | Shadow rapporteur | Agriculture, CAP |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Ministry of Ecology of Montenegro | Delegation chair | EU accession |
| 28 Apr 2026 | European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food; Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union | Member | Agriculture, CAP |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ↗ | Member | Raw 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.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
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.
Final texts where Thomas Waitz differed from the Greens/EFA majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | Greens/EFA majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | A10-0198/2026 – Borja Giménez Larraz – Draft Council decision | Abstained | For |
| 8 July 2026 | B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | Against |
| 8 July 2026 | A10-0181/2026 – Javi López, Borja Giménez Larraz – Proposal for a Council decision | Abstained | For |
| 26 March 2026 | A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposal | Abstained | Against |
| 8 October 2025 | A10-0161/2025 – Céline Imart – Commission proposal | Against | For |
| 8 July 2025 | A10-0121/2025 – Beata Szydło – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole) | Against | For |
| 22 May 2025 | A10-0083/2025 - Borys Budka - Proposition de la Commission au Conseil | For | Against |
| 7 May 2025 | A10-0076/2025 – Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | For | Abstained |
| 3 April 2025 | C10-0038/2025 - Proposition de la Commission | Abstained | For |
| 1 April 2025 | A10-0037/2025 – Céline Imart – Commission proposal and amendments | Abstained | Against |
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:
- “Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft” - likely Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (1 counterpart entry)
- “Center for Democratic Transition” - likely Center for Democratic Transition (1 counterpart entry)
- “Deutscher Bauernverband” - likely Deutscher Bauernverband (1 counterpart entry)
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.