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PROPOSAL FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

P9_TA(2024)0226

on the requestRequest for waiver of the immunity of Anna Júlia Donáth

(2024/202(IMM))

Committee on Legal Affairs

PE759.739

European Parliament decision of 11 April 2024 on the request for waiver of the immunity of Anna Júlia Donáth (2024/2002(IMM))

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the request for waiver of the immunity of Anna Júlia Donáth, submitted onof 19 December 20232023, byfrom the Prosecutor General of Hungary in the matter of criminal case No 2.Nyom.397/2022 in progress at the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Budapest, which is responsible for the investigation, for the use of force, acting as a group, against persons holding public authority and in connection with the criminal proceedings which it intends to bring against Anna Júlia Donáth for alleged violation of Article 310(1)(a) of Hungarian Law C of 2012 on the Hungarian Criminal Code, and announced in plenary on 15 January 2024,

– having heard Anna Júlia Donáth in accordance with Rule 9(6) of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A9-0168/2024),

A. whereas on 19 December 2023 the Prosecutor General of Hungary submitted a request for waiver of the immunity of Anna Júlia Donáth, Member of the European Parliament elected forin Hungary, in connection with criminal proceedings which the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Budapest intends to initiate against Anna Júlia Donáth for alleged violation of Article 310(1)(a) of Hungarian Act C of 2012 on the Hungarian Criminal Code for events which occurred on 21 February 2022 during a search in the context of other criminal proceedings concerning a third person;

B. whereas on 21 February 2022, during a search of premises belonging to a well-known Hungarian religious figure, in the context of criminal proceedings in connection with an alleged budget fraud offence which that figure was alleged to have committed, Anna Júlia Donáth, together with three Members of the Hungarian national parliament and others, visited the premises where the search was taking place; whereas, according to the request for waiver of immunity, an altercation occurred with the customs police responsible for protecting the premises where the search was taking place; whereas the members of the crowd involved in that altercation, including Anna Júlia Donáth and the three Members of the Hungarian national parliament, apparently only stopped when police officers, who had been called because the search was being obstructed, arrived at the scene;

1. Decides not to waive the immunity of Anna Júlia Donáth;

2. Instructs its President to forward this decision, and the report of its committee responsible, immediately to the appropriatecompetent authority of Hungary and to Anna Júlia Donáth.

ANNEX: LIST OF ENTITIES OR PERSONS FROM WHOM THE RAPPORTEUR HAS RECEIVED INPUT

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