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PROPOSAL FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

P10_TA(2025)0069

on the requestRequest for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun

(2024/2102(IMM))

Committee on Legal Affairs

PE770.079

European Parliament decision of 6 May 2025 on the request for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun (2024/2102(IMM))

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the request for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun by the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Poland, dated 29 October 2024, transmitting a request submitted by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, in connection with criminal proceedings brought against Grzegorz Braun, and announced in plenary on 14 November 2024,

– having regard to the fact that Grzegorz Braun is deemed to have renounced his right to be heard under Rule 9(6) of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A10-0081/2025),

A. whereas, by letter dated 29 October 2024, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Poland transmitted a request for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun, submitted by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, in relation to several alleged offences that occurred in 2022 and 2023;

B. whereas, according to the request, on 1 March 2022, in the building of the National Institute of Cardiology – State Research Institute, Grzegorz Braun allegedly violated the bodily integrity of a public official who was acting in his capacity as Director of the National Institute of Cardiology, during and in connection with the performance of official duties by this public official; whereas the alleged actions constitute an offence under Article 222(1) of the Polish Criminal Code, concurrently with Article 191(1) of the Polish Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 11(2) of that Code;

M. whereas the purpose of parliamentary immunity is to protect Parliament and its Members from legal proceedings in relation to activities carried out in the performance of parliamentary duties and which cannot be separated from those duties;

N. whereas, in accordance with Rule 5(2) of its Rules of Procedure, parliamentary immunity is not a personal privilege of the Member but a guarantee of the independence of Parliament as a whole,whole and of its Members;

O. whereas, in this case, Parliament found no evidence of fumus persecutionis, which is to say factual elements indicating that the intention underlying the legal proceedings in question is to undermine the Member’s political activity in his capacity as a Member of the European Parliament;

2. Instructs its President to forward this decision and the report of its committee responsible immediately to the competent authorities of the Republic of Poland and to Grzegorz Braun.

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