Member
Bruno TOBBACK
S&D · Belgium
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 ⓘ
95.1 %
5 636 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (+5.2 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.3 %
5 539 of 5 634 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (+2.1 pts)
44 opposite (for ↔ against), 18 abstained against the line, 3 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Bruno TOBBACK | 95.1 % |
| S&D median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 30.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 138 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Bruno TOBBACK | 98.3 % |
| S&D median | 96.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 138 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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 the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with CanadaD-CA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary CommitteeDEEA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable European UnionIG10-03 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills for a Competitive EuropeIG10-14 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working group | Member | 30 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU Emissions Trading System and market stability reserve: competitiveness and cost-effective decarbonisation | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ITRE | 14 Sept 2026 |
| Guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2022/869 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ENVI | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ENVI | 17 Mar 2026 |
| EU-Canada interparliamentary meeting in Ottawa and Halifax on 27 – 29 October 2025. | Official delegation | D-CA | 14 Oct 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 10 Jul 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ENVI | 19 Mar 2025 |
| Own initiative report: 'Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system' | Shadow rapporteur | ITRE | 8 Jan 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 27
- Climate & environment 19
- Energy 13
- Foreign affairs 8
- Trade & customs 8
- Digital, AI & data 7
- EU budget & funds 6
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 5
- Defence & security 4
- Transport & tourism 3
- Health 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- EU institutions & Parliament 1
- Justice, rule of law & rights 1
- Migration & asylum 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.
14 contributions recorded, 1 written statement; 1 on behalf of their group; 17 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 31
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 82
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 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D · Centre-left · social democracy
National delegation
- Delegation Belgium 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). “Bruno TOBBACK”. Member record. memberId 256885. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256885?speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256885. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256885?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-256885,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Bruno TOBBACK}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256885?speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256885?speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256885. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256885. 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}
}