Order of the General Court of 5 September 2012 - Farage v Parliament and Buzek
(Case T-564/11)
(Law governing the institutions - Decision of the President of the Parliament imposing on a Member of the Parliament the penalty of forfeiture of entitlement to the daily subsistence allowance for a period of 10 days - Decision of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Parliament declaring inadmissible the Member's request for defence of his Parliamentary immunity - Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the General Court - Manifest inadmissibility)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Nigel Paul Farage (Brussels (Belgium)) (represented by: P. Bennett, solicitor)
Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: N. Lorenz and D. Moore, acting as Agents) and Jerzy Buzek (Brussels (Belgium))
Re:
ACTION for annulment, first, of the decision of the President of the Parliament of 2 March 2010 imposing on the applicant the penalty of forfeiture of entitlement to the daily subsistence allowance for a period of 10 days, secondly, of the decision of the Bureau of the Parliament of 24 March 2010 confirming the above decision of the President of the Parliament, thirdly, of the decision of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Parliament declaring inadmissible the applicant's request for defence of immunity and, fourthly, of an unspecified decision of the Parliament.
Operative part of the order
The action is dismissed.
Nigel Paul Farage is to bear his own costs and to pay those of the European Parliament.
____________1 - OJ C 25, 28.1.2012.