CELEX: C2007/129/22
Language: en
Date: 2007-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-200/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) lodged on 12 April 2007 — Alfonso Luigi Marra v Edoardo De Gregorio

9.6.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/13
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) lodged on 12 April 2007 — Alfonso Luigi Marra v Edoardo De Gregorio
   (Case C-200/07)
   (2007/C 129/22)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Referring court
   Corte Suprema di Cassazione
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Alfonso Luigi Marra
   
      Defendant: Edoardo De Gregorio
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               In the event that a Member of the European Parliament does not act by exercising the right granted to him under Rule [6(3)] of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament (1) directly to request the President to defend privileges and immunities, is the court before which a civil action is pending in any event required to request the President to waive immunity for the purposes of pursuing proceedings and adopting a decision?
               or
            
         
               2.
            
            
               In the absence of a communication by the European Parliament that it intends to defend the immunities and privileges of the Member concerned, may the court before which that civil action is pending rule as to the existence or otherwise of that privilege, regard being had to the specific circumstances of the case?
            
         
      (1)  OJ L 44, 15.2.2005, p. 1.