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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 78 — part 2 | 289 for, 304 against, 11 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 78 — part 1 | 396 for, 182 against, 32 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 77 | 346 for, 224 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 74 — part 2 | 258 for, 325 against, 21 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 74 — part 1 | 397 for, 170 against, 44 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 73 | 279 for, 289 against, 42 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 3 | 254 for, 324 against, 30 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 2 | 365 for, 149 against, 73 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 1 | 396 for, 183 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 71 — part 3 | 368 for, 147 against, 93 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 71 — part 2 | 292 for, 260 against, 47 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 71 — part 1 | 411 for, 161 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 68 | 262 for, 309 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 67 | 251 for, 349 against, 15 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 64 | 262 for, 287 against, 50 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 59 | 256 for, 305 against, 50 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 57 | 300 for, 238 against, 78 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 30 | 359 for, 200 against, 51 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 29 | 292 for, 262 against, 56 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 28 | 336 for, 218 against, 58 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 27 | 341 for, 218 against, 58 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 21 — part 2 | 301 for, 298 against, 12 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 21 — part 1 | 518 for, 24 against, 74 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 16 — part 2 | 299 for, 270 against, 38 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 16 — part 1 | 439 for, 138 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 10 — part 3 | 298 for, 282 against, 34 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 10 — part 2 | 295 for, 302 against, 7 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 10 — part 1 | 437 for, 166 against, 6 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 | 208 for, 390 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 3 — part 2 | 381 for, 182 against, 44 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 3 — part 1 | 510 for, 41 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Amendment 2 to paragraph 1 | 207 for, 391 against, 12 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Amendment 4 | 159 for, 424 against, 31 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Amendment 1 | 172 for, 440 against, 10 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Spain and France in relation to natural disasters in 2024 and 2025 Final vote — text as a whole | Passed 622 for, 10 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol Final vote | Passed 605 for, 26 against, 2 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Liechtenstein agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol Final vote | Passed 611 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-San Marino agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol Final vote | Passed 606 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Monaco agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol Final vote | Passed 610 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Final vote | Passed 370 for, 160 against, 107 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 104 to recital 18 | 171 for, 431 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 87, adding text after recital 7 | 58 for, 475 against, 97 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Andorra agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol Final vote | Passed 605 for, 29 against, 0 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 86, adding text after recital 7 | 97 for, 486 against, 42 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 85 to recital 6 | 49 for, 506 against, 60 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 103, adding text after recital 3 | 185 for, 433 against, 14 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 84 to recital 2 | 123 for, 476 against, 27 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 83, adding text after recital 1 | 113 for, 493 against, 9 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 82, adding text after recital 1 | 94 for, 503 against, 36 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) Amendment 102 to Article 72 | 56 for, 486 against, 82 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
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, 120
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 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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
- 1 October 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?page=61&rows=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 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 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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?page=61&rows=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256979?page=61&rows=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
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 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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}
}