Directory
The organisations that lobby the Parliament
4,232 organisations have a profile here - resolved EU Transparency Register entities with at least 3 declared meetings with current MEPs and enough Register metadata to build a profile. (As of 8 November 2026.)
The Transparency Register at a glance
All 17,998 entities registered to lobby the EU institutions, by the category they chose when registering. Most never meet an MEP; this is the population the declarations are matched against.
What each category coversHide what each category covers
These are the EU Transparency Register's own categories, under plain names. Each organisation chooses its category itself when it registers.
- Companies
- Companies and corporate groups (a parent company with its subsidiaries), lobbying for themselves. In the Register: “Companies & groups”
- NGOs and NGO networks
- Non-governmental organisations - campaign, charity and advocacy groups - and the platforms and networks that bring them together. In the Register: “Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar”
- Trade and business associations
- Bodies that speak for the companies of one industry, or for business in general. In the Register: “Trade and business associations”
- Trade unions and professional bodies
- Unions that represent workers, and bodies that represent a profession, such as doctors, lawyers, architects or engineers - the Register files both in one category, and many industry and farming federations choose it too. The counterpart types below count only the unions among them as trade unions. In the Register: “Trade unions and professional associations”
- Lobbying consultancies
- Firms paid to lobby for their clients. In the Register: “Professional consultancies”
- Think tanks and research institutes
- Policy institutes and research organisations. In the Register: “Think tanks and research institutions”
- Universities and academies
- Universities, colleges and other academic bodies. In the Register: “Academic institutions”
- Associations of public bodies
- Associations and networks of public authorities, such as those of cities, municipalities or regions. In the Register: “Associations and networks of public authorities”
- Individuals
- People registered in their own name, such as self-employed consultants. In the Register: “Self-employed individuals”
- Law firms
- Law firms that lobby for their clients. In the Register: “Law firms”
- Churches and religious communities
- Churches, faith communities and the organisations that represent them. In the Register: “Organisations representing churches and religious communities”
- Bodies set up by non-EU countries
- Offices and networks established by governments outside the EU. In the Register: “Entities, offices or networks established by third countries”
- Other
- Everything the other categories do not cover, including public or part-public bodies such as professional chambers and public agencies. In the Register: “Other organisations, public or mixed entities”
Counterpart entries by type
Of 127,688 declared counterpart entries, 120,100 could be given a type; the remaining 7,588 entries are unclassified and excluded from this mix; 608 of them name organisations that the Register files only as “Other” and no reviewer has placed yet. Companies and business groups account for 52.1% of the classified entries; the business-only figures on the sector pages count the same two types, among organisations with a sector.
These types are this site's own grouping, taken from the Register category where the counterpart is registered and from its name where it is not. Business groups are trade and business associations, professional bodies, lobbying consultancies, law firms and self-employed consultants (the Register's "Individuals"). Diplomatic & government covers embassies, ministries, EU institutions, international bodies and offices set up by non-EU governments. Unions, think tanks & others are trade unions, think tanks & academia, public authorities, religious bodies, political parties and people in a personal capacity (someone met in their own right, such as a journalist or a researcher).
All 4,232 profiled organisations
Ranked by declared meetings with current MEPs; the sort menu changes the order.
By sector
Not in one sector
- Cross-sector / other - 228 profiled organisations. Of these 228, reviewers placed 167 here because, in their judgement, no single sector on this site fits them: cities and regions, churches and faith groups, sport bodies, the legal professions, standards and testing bodies, social-welfare networks, and cultural organisations, among others. The other 61 are here because the automatic classifier could not match their names and Register entries to one sector, and no reviewer has placed them yet.
The names MEPs declare most often
The 220 names that appear most often in MEPs' meeting declarations, spelled exactly as the MEPs wrote them. Unlike the profiles above, this list also holds bodies that are not in the Transparency Register, such as the European Commission. Each spelling is counted on its own, so an organisation that MEPs name in several ways can have more meetings on its profile than on its row here.
A name links to a profile where we could match it to a Transparency Register identity. 9 of the 220 names could not be matched to any register entry - some, like the European Commission and UN agencies, are not required to register; others are simply free text we will not guess at. How matching works.
Each name's type is the one the chart of counterpart entries by type counts it under; that chart puts trade unions, think tanks & academia, public authorities, religious bodies, political parties and people in a personal capacity together as Unions, think tanks & others.