
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 8 November 2026, Thomas Waitz (Greens/EFA, Austria) has declared 283 lobby meetings this term - rank 53 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.8× the average member, and it ranks 6 of 53 in the Greens/EFA group.
32% 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 52%.
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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 November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.
Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 23 in Mar 2026.
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| Month | Meetings | Linked |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2024 | 2 | 100% |
| Aug 2024 | 0 | - |
| Sep 2024 | 12 | 50% |
| Oct 2024 | 11 | 20% |
| Nov 2024 | 10 | 60% |
| Dec 2024 | 4 | 20% |
| Jan 2025 | 8 | 66.7% |
| Feb 2025 | 21 | 15.2% |
| Mar 2025 | 20 | 15% |
| Apr 2025 | 18 | 16.7% |
| May 2025 | 17 | 15% |
| Jun 2025 | 9 | 60% |
| Jul 2025 | 3 | 0% |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | - |
| Sep 2025 | 18 | 21.1% |
| Oct 2025 | 13 | 26.7% |
| Nov 2025 | 14 | 41.2% |
| Dec 2025 | 7 | 28.6% |
| Jan 2026 | 9 | 33.3% |
| Feb 2026 | 13 | 20% |
| Mar 2026 | 23 | 42.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 14 | 46.7% |
| May 2026 | 7 | 25% |
| Jun 2026 | 18 | 50% |
| Jul 2026 | 8 | 22.2% |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | - |
| Sep 2026 | 1 | 0% |
| Oct 2026 | 3 | 33.3% |
| Nov 2026 | 0 | - |
Busiest month: 23 declared in March 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.
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
Both lists count this term. Sector pages count the full 2016–2026 record, and committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.
Most-met sectors this term
Environment & climate (33), Agriculture & food (29), Human rights & humanitarian (14)
Meetings by committee or delegation this term
Agriculture and Rural Development (100), Foreign Affairs (80), Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (45), Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo (3), Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | anima international | Member | animal husbandry in poultry |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Rinderzucht Austria EFFAB | Shadow rapporteur | Animal welfare in transport and lifestock farming |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Animal Welfare Foundation e.V.↗ | Shadow rapporteur | Animal Welfare in Transport |
| 11 Sep 2026 | Animal Law Europe | Shadow rapporteur | Animal Welfare in Tranposrt |
| 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 |
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| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Vijesti Media Group | Delegation chair | Exchange of Views, EU-accession |
| 24 Jun 2026 | European Vegetarian Union↗ | Member | Protein Diversification |
| 22 Jun 2026 | GLOBAL2000 | Member | Food and Feed, Pesticides |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Bauer to People | Shadow rapporteur | Agriculture |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro | Delegation chair | EU-Accession |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Mission of North Macedonia to the European Union | Rapporteur | EU accession |
| 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 | Umweltorganisation WWF Central and Eastern Europe↗; Stichting BirdLife Europe↗; Institute for European Environmental Policy↗; Greenpeace European Unit↗; Friends of the Earth Europe↗; European Environmental Bureau↗; Compassion in World Farming Brussels↗; Agroecology Europe↗ | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 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 | European Coordination Via Campesina↗ | Shadow rapporteur | CAP |
| 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 |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Thomas Waitz held the seat, 606 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 606 final votes held while seated.
With and against the group
On the 584 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 | The Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the United Mexican States A10-0198/2026 · Borja Giménez Larraz · Draft Council decision | Abstained | For |
| 8 July 2026 | Motion for a resolution on Commission delegated regulation of 10 April 2026 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 to introduce a trajectory to gradually decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets B10-0337/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | Against |
| 8 July 2026 | The Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the United… A10-0181/2026 · Javi López and Borja Giménez Larraz · Proposal for a Council decision | Abstained | For |
| 26 March 2026 | The adjustment of customs duties on the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America and opening of tariff quotas for imports of… A10-0069/2026 · Bernd Lange · Commission proposal | Abstained | Against |
| 8 October 2025 | Amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) 2021/2116 as regards the strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain A10-0161/2025 · Céline Imart · Commission proposal | Against | For |
| 8 July 2025 | The security of energy supply in the EU A10-0121/2025 · Beata Szydło · Motion for a resolution (text as a whole) | Against | For |
| 22 May 2025 | Council regulation establishing the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon… A10-0083/2025 · Borys Budka · Commission proposal to the Council | For | Against |
| 7 May 2025 | A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world A10-0076/2025 · Siegfried Mureşan and Carla Tavares · Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | For | Abstained |
| 3 April 2025 | C10-0038/2025 - Commission proposal | Abstained | For |
| 1 April 2025 | Providing macro-financial assistance to the Arab Republic of Egypt A10-0037/2025 · Céline Imart · Commission proposal and amendments | Abstained | Against |
5 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.
Unlinked but matchable
19 counterpart entries in Thomas Waitz's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:
- “European Beekeeping Association” - likely European Beekeeping Association (2 counterpart entries)
- “Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft” - likely Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (1 counterpart entry)
- “Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)” - likely Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (1 counterpart entry)
These are the 3 most frequent matches, covering 4 of the 19 entries; the other 15 are not listed.
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.