Request for waiver of the immunity of Jana Nagyová

The European Parliament has decided to waive the immunity Jana Nagyová.

As a reminder, on 1 July 2024, the High Court in Prague submitted a request for waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Jana Nagyová, a Member of the European Parliament elected in the Czech Republic.

The criminal proceedings against Jana Nagyová are being conducted on the basis of the indictment of the Municipal State Prosecutor’s Office in Prague, dated 21 March 2022, for an act she allegedly committed jointly with a co-accused person on the grounds that she, in her capacity as a person with a professional focus on Union grants and, in the period from 17 January 2008 to 5 January 2010, as vice-chair of the board of directors of a Czech company, applied for a grant knowing that that company was not entitled to it and providing false information that the company was a small enterprise and an independent enterprise.

Parliament considered the alleged offences do not concern opinions expressed or votes cast in the performance of the duties of a Member of the European Parliament.

Furthermore, it has found no evidence of fumus persecutionis, which is to say factual elements which indicate that the intention underlying the legal proceedings may be to damage a Member’s political activity and thus the European Parliament.