Member
Oliver SCHENK
EPP · Germany
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 ⓘ
98.3 %
5 830 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (+8.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.3 %
5 731 of 5 830 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+4.7 pts)
37 opposite (for ↔ against), 10 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Oliver SCHENK | 98.3 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Oliver SCHENK | 98.3 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of EPP; 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.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 17 | 160 for, 296 against, 14 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 6 to paragraph 17 | 168 for, 300 against, 6 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 15 | 75 for, 330 against, 65 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 12 | 146 for, 316 against, 6 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendments 3 + 5 (voted as one) to paragraph 1 | 181 for, 267 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 263 for, 83 against, 154 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AH | 294 for, 144 against, 70 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AF | 285 for, 198 against, 30 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AC | 238 for, 217 against, 57 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital S — part 2 | 273 for, 160 against, 79 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital S — part 1 | 344 for, 111 against, 50 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital R — part 2 | 320 for, 152 against, 34 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital R — part 1 | 384 for, 113 against, 13 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital F | 473 for, 12 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital A — part 2 | 303 for, 178 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital A — part 1 | 437 for, 28 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 83 | 427 for, 42 against, 42 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 81 | 307 for, 146 against, 58 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 79 | 327 for, 154 against, 31 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 64 | 266 for, 234 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 58 | 507 for, 3 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 55 | 373 for, 76 against, 79 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 53 | 248 for, 158 against, 114 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 49 — part 2 | 358 for, 134 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 49 — part 1 | 421 for, 77 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 43 | 261 for, 105 against, 174 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 37 — part 2 | 245 for, 275 against, 20 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 37 — part 1 | 286 for, 182 against, 65 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 36 — part 2 | 299 for, 134 against, 103 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 36 — part 1 | 472 for, 33 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 28 | 190 for, 311 against, 39 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 22 | 321 for, 118 against, 102 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 19 | 505 for, 29 against, 9 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 15 | 460 for, 14 against, 64 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 14 | 181 for, 342 against, 20 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 14 | 496 for, 7 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 337 for, 178 against, 44 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 7 to recital AY | 175 for, 378 against, 2 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 6 to recital Y | 122 for, 432 against, 4 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 13 to recital A | 293 for, 263 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 56 — part 2 | 537 for, 26 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 56 — part 1 | 378 for, 171 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 43 to paragraph 56 | 162 for, 384 against, 20 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 42 to paragraph 55 | 166 for, 356 against, 40 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 12 to paragraph 43 | 501 for, 49 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Separate vote on paragraph 40 | 531 for, 24 against, 13 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Separate vote on paragraph 37 | 391 for, 90 against, 84 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 2 | 226 for, 296 against, 46 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 1 | 388 for, 120 against, 62 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 36 | 279 for, 121 against, 167 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
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 | Member | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Public HealthSANT Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association CommitteeD-UA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary AssemblyDEPA Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Cancer and Rare DiseasesIG10-05 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chips Act 2.0 | Rapporteur | ITRE | 31 Aug 2026 |
| Amending Regulations (EU) 2017/745 and (EU) 2017/746 as regards simplifying and reducing the burden of the rules on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, and amending Regulation (EU) 2022/123 as regards the support of the European Medicines Agency for the expert panels on medical devices and Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as regards the list of Union harmonisation legislation referred to in its Annex I | Rapporteur | SANT | 29 Apr 2026 |
| Euronest Parliamentary Assembly\nJoint meeting of the Committee on political affairs, human rights and democracy and of the committee on energy security and joint meeting of the committee on economic integration and of the commitee on social affairs, employment, education, culture and civil society | Official delegation | DEPA | 19 Apr 2026 |
| Amending Regulations (EU) 2016/679, (EU) 2018/1724, (EU) 2018/1725, (EU) 2023/2854 and Directives 2002/58/EC, (EU) 2022/2555 and (EU) 2022/2557 as regards the simplification of the digital legislative framework, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2018/1807, (EU) 2019/1150, (EU) 2022/868, and Directive (EU) 2019/1024 (Digital Omnibus) | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 24 Mar 2026 |
| 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 | ENVI | 26 Jan 2026 |
| Parlamentary assembly | Official delegation | DEPA | 1 Nov 2025 |
| Laying a framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest, and amending Regulation (EU) 2024/795 | Opinion rapporteur | ITRE | 14 Jul 2025 |
| Impact of social media and the online environment on young people | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | LIBE | 10 Jul 2025 |
| Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an application for the electronic submission of travel data (“EU Digital Travel application”) and amending Regulations (EU) 2016/399 and (EU) 2018/1726 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004, as regards the use of digital travel credentials (2024/0670 (COD)) | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 9 Dec 2024 |
| Soil monitoring and resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) | Shadow rapporteur | ENVI | 9 Oct 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Climate & environment 10
- Foreign affairs 10
- Economy & single market 9
- Health 9
- Defence & security 3
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- EU budget & funds 1
- Energy 1
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 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.
21 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 32 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 22
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 118
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 European People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
National delegation
- Delegation Germany 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 e994c83b5003 (27 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
- 27 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Oliver SCHENK”. Member record. memberId 256979. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256979?nb=all&page=19&vscope=all (retrieved 27 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256979. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256979?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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-256979,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Oliver SCHENK}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256979?nb=all&page=19&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256979?nb=all&page=19&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-27},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256979. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256979. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}