52Since the immunity provided for in Article 9 of the Protocol is a matter of law and since the Member of the Parliament can be deprived of his immunity only if the Parliament has waived it, the defence of immunity, in the context of Article 9 of the Protocol, is conceivable only where, in the absence of a request for waiver of a Member’s immunity, immunity, as resulting from the provisions of the national law of that Member’s Member State of origin, is endangered, in particular, by the action of the police or judicial authorities of that Member’s Member State of origin.
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