Member
Elsi KATAINEN
Renew · Finland
Record
The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.
Roll-call participation ⓘ
97.8 %
5 800 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Renew median: 90.4 % (+7.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
96.9 %
5 613 of 5 795 votes where their group had a line
Renew median: 95.5 % (+1.3 pts)
96 opposite (for ↔ against), 20 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Elsi KATAINEN | 97.8 % |
| Renew median | 90.4 % |
| Lowest in the group | 65.3 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 76 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Elsi KATAINEN | 96.9 % |
| Renew median | 95.5 % |
| Lowest in the group | 77.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 98.3 % |
| Members | 76 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Renew; no ranks.
- “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
- A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
Roll-call participation
One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.
"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
Data as a table
Voting neighbours
Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 27 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with Australia and New ZealandDANZ Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Jan 2025 |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 26 Sept 2024 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Establishing the Connecting Europe Facility for the period 2028-2034, amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | REGI | 21 Jan 2026 |
| Amending Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards the school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme (‘EU school scheme’), sectoral interventions, the creation of a protein sector, requirements for hemp, the possibility for marketing standards for cheese, protein crops and meat, application of additional import duties, rules on the availability of supplies in time of emergencies and severe crisis and securities | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | REGI | 21 Jan 2026 |
| Establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 | Rapporteur | AGRI | 17 Dec 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AGRI | 12 Sept 2025 |
| Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AGRI | 13 Mar 2025 |
| Forest reproductive material of the ‘tested’ category, its labelling and the names of the authorities responsible for the approval and control of the production | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 4 Dec 2024 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 15 Nov 2024 |
| Own-initiative report on \"\"Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy\"\" | Shadow rapporteur | REGI | 16 Oct 2024 |
| Amendment of Council Decision 89/367/EEC setting up a Standing Forestry Committee,(COM(2023)727) | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 8 Oct 2024 |
| Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on a monitoring framework for resilient European forests, (COM(2023)728) | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 8 Oct 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- EU budget & funds 16
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 15
- Economy & single market 11
- Climate & environment 7
- Defence & security 5
- Foreign affairs 4
- Transport & tourism 3
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Energy 1
- Trade & customs 1
Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.
In the chamber
Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.
22 contributions recorded; 4 on behalf of their group; 30 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 20
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 101
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism
National delegation
- Delegation Finland National delegation
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Data version
- data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Elsi KATAINEN”. Member record. memberId 191693. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/191693?roles=all&rows=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/191693. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/191693?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-191693,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Elsi KATAINEN}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/191693?roles=all&rows=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/191693?roles=all&rows=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 191693. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/191693. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}