Who engages most with EU consultations

Method. The staff, cost and badge columns are each organization’s own declaration to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 2 Sept 2026; 4199 of the 6151 organizations here matched by register number). Costs are band floors — the + means “at least”. Those columns never affect the order. An em dash means the organization did not match the register snapshot, which proves nothing: the register is voluntary for some categories. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Ranked on counts of consultation submissions, not on declared budget, staff or building access — a count is something you can check against the pages themselves. Organizations on identical counts share a rank, shown with an = sign, because presenting a tie as an order would be false precision. Listed here if the organization’s register number resolves, or if it has filed at least twice; an unverified name with a single submission is findable by search but has no page of its own. Participation is not influence, and a low position is not a judgment — many organizations engage through a trade association rather than filing themselves.