MEP of the week

Industry & sector

Who lobbies the Parliament on transport & automotive?

Car and vehicle makers and their suppliers, aircraft makers and airlines, rail, shipping, ports, logistics and postal operators, and mobility services.

Organisations classified under Transport & automotive account for 5,454 declared MEP meetings across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about €87M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 8 November 2026.)

Most active organisations

OrganisationTypeMeetingsMEPs met
Volkswagen Aktien­gesellschaft⁠↗Company16961
European Association Automotive Suppliers⁠↗Business group16186
Airbus⁠↗Company15968
Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles⁠↗Business group15883
Verband der Automobil­industrie⁠↗Business group14249
RENAULT⁠↗Company11650
Robert Bosch GmbH⁠↗Company11451
Mercedes-Benz Group AG⁠↗Company10237
E-MOBILITY EUROPE⁠↗Business group10155
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE⁠↗Company9865
DHL Group⁠↗Company8844
Stellantis⁠↗Company8853
Also active here: 45 organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in transport & automotive

MEPs most met by transport & automotive organisations

Across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. A member's own page counts this term only, so its sector figures can be lower.

Jens Gieseke
348 meetings in Transport & automotive
Jan-Christoph Oetjen
226 meetings in Transport & automotive
François Kalfon
161 meetings in Transport & automotive
Pascal Canfin
135 meetings in Transport & automotive
Vivien Costanzo
95 meetings in Transport & automotive
Tiemo Wölken
91 meetings in Transport & automotive
Peter Liese
88 meetings in Transport & automotive
Christophe Grudler
81 meetings in Transport & automotive
Johan Danielsson
78 meetings in Transport & automotive
Michael Bloss
73 meetings in Transport & automotive
Markus Ferber
72 meetings in Transport & automotive
Sophia Kircher
72 meetings in Transport & automotive

Sector labels are this site's own: reviewers chose the sector for 148 of the 313 profiled organisations here, and the other 165 carry a keyword classification by this site over organisation names, goals and Register categories. See methodology.