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Immunity of Members of the European Parliament
[Imunita členů Evropského parlamentu]

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  • Zuzana Trávníčková

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The immunity of members of the European Parliament is based on Protocol on privileges and immunities from April 8, 1965. Inspired by national regulations, the Protocol lays out provisions on non-liability (covering opinions expressed or vote cast during debates in Parliament) and inviolability (under same conditions, as the members of national parliaments are protected). Since eighties, the Parliament has struggled for a revision of the Protocol unsuccessfully. The revision should overcome the national extension of the Protocol and "upgrade" provisions, concerning the members of Parliament. Even if the Protocol text has not been revised yet, we cannot say that the institution of parliamentary immunity is rigid, or that it has not changed at all. Decisions concerning the parliamentary immunity belong to routine agenda of Committee for legal affairs and the plenary assembly of European parliament. Some shifts in the interpretation and application of parliamentary immunity may be identified in reports of the committee dealing with particular request for defence or waiver of the immunity, other result from the changes of Rules of procedure of the European Parliament. European judicial institutions also contribute to the interpretation of parliamentary immunity and define the frame of its application substantially.

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  • Zuzana Trávníčková, 2009. "Immunity of Members of the European Parliament [Imunita členů Evropského parlamentu]," Současná Evropa, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2009(2), pages 21-34.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlsev:v:2009:y:2009:i:2:id:54:p:21-34
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