Amendment No. 5 | Doc. 14076 | 22 June 2016

Parliamentary immunity: challenges to the scope of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by members of the Parliamentary Assembly

Signatories: Ms Chiora TAKTAKISHVILI, Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Tiny KOX, Netherlands, UEL ; Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Mr Mart van de VEN, Netherlands, ALDE

Origin - 2016 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 13, insert the following paragraph:

"The Assembly invites member States to take all necessary measures to ensure compliance with obligations under the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Council of Europe and its Protocol, on which they have not expressed reservation or made an interpretative declaration. It is concerned about the changes to national systems of parliamentary immunity, in particular by means of amending or suspending constitutional provisions, which lead, in practice, to render ineffective Article 15.a of the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities, and to remove de facto protection accorded to members of the Assembly on the territory of their own State, as defined by the Assembly in its Resolution 1490 (2006)."