CELEX: 62010CN0163
Language: en
Date: 2010-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-163/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Isernia (Italy) lodged on 2 April 2010 — Criminal proceedings against Aldo Patriciello

19.6.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 161/28
            
         
      Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Isernia (Italy) lodged on 2 April 2010 — Criminal proceedings against Aldo Patriciello
      (Case C-163/10)
      (2010/C 161/37)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunale di Isernia
      
         Party to the main proceedings
      
      Aldo Patriciello
      
         Question referred
      
      Do the facts construed in abstracto as a criminal offence committed by Aldo Patriciello — a Member of the European Parliament, described in the indictment and in favour of whom the European Parliament adopted a decision on 5 May 2009 to support a defence of immunity — which is categorised as slander under Article 368 of the Penal Code correspond to the expression of an opinion in the performance of parliamentary duties for the purposes of Article 9 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the privileges and immunities of the European Communities?