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Sectors
Sector labels are computed by this site from organisation names, goals and register categories - they are not a register field. Meeting totals cover the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. Declared budgets are self-reported and cover all EU institutions, not the Parliament alone. (As of 8 November 2026.)
All 17 sectors
Profiled organisations are those with a page here - three or more declared meetings with current MEPs and enough Transparency Register data for a profile - the same count as on Organisations. A sector's meeting total counts each declaration once, even when it names several of the sector's organisations, and it includes organisations with too few meetings for a profile.
Not in one sector
- Cross-sector / other - 2,336 declared meetings · 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.
Most active sectors, business counterparts only
Only meetings with companies and business groups - the two types the business share on the Organisations page counts - are counted here: declared meetings with register-linked business counterparts, by industry, across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. The cards above count every declared meeting in a sector, so a sector whose counterparts are mostly NGOs or research bodies - human rights, think tanks - is far shorter here than its card. Cross-sector / other is shown apart, below the line: it is not one industry.
Not in one sector
Declared lobby budgets of business organisations, by sector
Sum of the self-declared annual EU-lobbying budgets of companies and business associations, one figure per organisation. NGOs, unions, research bodies and public bodies are not counted, so a sector made mostly of them is short here. Cross-sector / other is left out: it is not one industry.
What this figure is. These are self-declared annual budgets for lobbying the EU institutions - Commission, Parliament and Council together. They are not audited, not Parliament-only, and are widely treated as a floor rather than a ceiling. Figures are the latest declaration on record, with spelling variants of the same organisation merged by register ID. We have budgets for 2,536 organisations, so the true totals are higher still.
Biggest declared lobby budgets
Self-declared annual EU-lobbying budget per organisation. Follow a name to its profile, or to its register entry (↗) where it has no profile here.