Written question – Limitation of the parliamentary right of inquiry – facts which are being examined before a court – E-002758/2025

Question for written answer  E-002758/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Marieke Ehlers (PfE)

Article 226 TFEU and Article 3 of the Decision of 6 March 1995 on the detailed provisions governing the exercise of the European Parliament’s right of inquiry state that a parliamentary committee of inquiry investigates alleged contraventions of Union law or instances of maladministration in the implementation of Union law, except where the alleged facts are being examined before a court and while the case is still subject to legal proceedings.

Since the exception applies to FACTS that are being examined before a court, does this mean that facts that are being examined in appeal proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union fall outside this exception, and thus do fall within the remit of parliamentary inquiry law, since in such appeal proceedings the facts themselves are not re-examined, as these appeal proceedings are limited solely to questions of law?

Submitted: 7.7.2025