57In addition, the privileges and immunities which the Protocol grants to the European Union have a purely functional character, inasmuch as they are intended to avoid any interference with the functioning and independence of the European Union, which entails, in particular, that the privileges, immunities and facilities accorded to officials and other servants of the European Union are done so solely in the interests of the latter (order of 13 July 1990, Zwartveld and Others, C‑2/88-IMM, EU:C:1990:315, paragraphs 19 and 20, and judgment of 18 June 2020, Commission v RQ, C‑831/18 P, EU:C:2020:481, paragraph 47).
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