Judgment_paragraph 80 · Criminal proceedings against Oriol Junqueras Vies (C-502/19)

80That provision provides that the immunity also applies to the Members of the European Parliament while they are travelling to and from the place of meeting of the European Parliament, and therefore, inter alia, while they are travelling to the first sitting held after the official declaration of the election results, in order to allow the new parliament to hold its inaugural session and to verify the credentials of its Members, as noted in paragraph 73 above. Those Members therefore enjoy the immunity in question before their term of office has begun.