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The Author concludes that the Rules Deputies’ and Immunity Affairs Committee should not continue to examine application request of the subsidiary prosecutor after the court of appeal has finally dismissed the criminal proceedings. It should be assumed that revoking of a valid procedural decision terminating these proceedings will give rise to the necessity of submitting a new application for waiver of immunity. An entity that submitted an application for waiver of immunity may freely dispose of it until the Sejm adopts a resolution regarding the consent to bring the Deputy to criminal accountability or until the Deputy’s submission of the statement referred to in Article 105 para. 4 of the Constitution.
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In the event of the death of a Deputy receiving the salary of a Deputy and allowances, family members entitled under the aforementioned provision shall be entitled to claim the salary of a Deputy and the allowances due to the Deputy up to the date of his or her death. A claim for payment of the salary of a Deputy and of the allowances due to a deceased Deputy is subject to limitation, with a deadline set out as three years from the date on which the claim became due.
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The article describes the activity of Martin Mičura, chairman of the Czechoslovak People's Party in Slovakia, as a member of the National Assembly in the years 1925–1939. Martin Mičura, as a deputy of a pro‑ Czechoslovak party, always tried in his speeches to enable Slovakia to enjoy similar social conditions to those in the more developed Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. He was mostly involved in discussions about the budget for the next year and concentrated on questions and problems which, as a lawyer and an expert with practice in self‑ governing structures, understood best judicial issues and questions of public administration and self‑ government. He did not avoid other social areas and worked to help Slovakia in the economic, social, and cultural areas. His other “favourite” themes were church schools, sole traders and traders, taxes, transport, etc. In the 1930s, he began to comment on such key issues as the huge economic crisis and its consequences, the worsening situation in international politics and the increase in nationalism in connection with the expansion of totalitarian systems, especially Nazi Germany which began to abuse the Germany minority in Czechoslovakia to its advantage. The aim of his speeches in debates on international politics was to protect a democratic and unitary Czechoslovakia which, from the mid 1930s, was in increasing danger from undemocratic, autocratic, and totalitarian systems which gradually destroyed the Versailles Peace Treaty. He worked as a deputy of the Czechoslovak People's Party in Slovakia in various parliamentary committees, notably as chairman of the constitutional and juridical committee in the years 1925–1935.
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The aim of this opinion is to answer the question of how the status of a full-time (also called “a professional”) Deputy to the Sejm (assuming that it is the only form of his/her activity) involves limitations on his/her human and civil rights enshrined in the Constitution? According to the author, the establishment of a full-time job as the only form of exercise of the Deputy’s mandate, would need an amendment of the constitution. The legislative interference must respect the constitutional requirement that any limitation of the rights and freedoms should correspond to the public interest and respect the principle of proportionality.
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The linguistic interpretation of the Resolution on the financing of visits to the Sejm by parliamen‑ tary groups leads to the conclusion that it is the Deputy who organises the visit to the Sejm for the group he/she has registered. However, the resolution does not use the term “organiser” and there‑ fore does not impose any specific obligations. In the case of damage caused in connection with the action or omission of a particular entity, the general principles of liability for tort (delict) apply.
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The opinion concerns the decision of the Marshal of the Sejm to expel a Deputy from a sitting, taken pursuant to Article. 175 para. 5 of the Standing Orders of the Sejm. In the author’s view, such decision is not final, as the Presidium of the Sejm may quash it, having considered an appeal submitted by the Deputy and – on the other hand – is immediately applicable, because the expelled Deputy is obliged to leave the Chamber and abstain from participating in further deliberations until his/her appeal is considered (or until the end of the session of the Sejm, if the Deputy has not submitted an appeal). Therefore, the expelled member does not have the right to participate in voting. Preventing the Deputy expelled from the sitting from “entering the Chamber with the purpose of voting” is necessary in order to respect Article 176 para. 6 of the Standing Orders of the Sejm.
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The opinion concerns Deputy’s entitlement to oversighting and intervening in establishments and enterprises on the basis of Article 19 and 20 of the Act on the Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator. It was stated that a Deputy has a right of access to documents (insight into operations). It has been observed that providing information is is not equivalent to “access to documents”. The Deputy has a right to obtain information and explanations, but not to get an access to documents. The indicated provisions are examples of the so-called leges imperfectae, because the Act does not provide any consequences of non-compliance with them.
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Interpellation is one of the fundamental mechanisms ensuring parliamentary oversight of the government. An obligation to respond to interpellations is enshrined in the constitution. Information about non-response to interpellations are placed in the Information System of the Sejm. The body entrusted to supervise the execution by the government administration of the relevant obligations specified in the Act on the Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator is the Marshal of the Sejm. The predominant form of responsibility of a minister for failure to comply with the obligation to reply to an interpellation is a political responsibility, including in particular the opportunity to submit a motion of no confidence in him/her by the Sejm. Due to the constitutional nature of the obligation to give response to an interpellation, any failure to meet that obligation may also be a prerequisite for initiation of the proceedings to hold the minister constitutionally responsible.
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According to the author, there are no legal obstacles for a Deputy to hold shares in certain types of companies which, in their business, benefit from EU funds. If funds for the implementation of the program in which the company intends to participate, come – partly or in whole – from the state budget, they will be classified as state property. There are reasons to consider that the funds available to entrepreneurs under EU programs, paid in 100% from EU funds, do not constitute property of the state nor municipal property.
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The author of the opinion claims that a Deputy who makes a statement about his/her financial condition, should include information about insurance policy on life as financial resources, which are the subject of art. 35 (1.1) of the Act on Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy and Senator (in point I of the form of the statement). The obligation of presenting such policy exists only when an insurance contract makes verification of the amount currently being on the account of the insured person possible and that person can manage the funds col‑ lected on the account. A Deputy who does not declare such insurance policy, might be subject to criminal liability, if the not declaring that part of his/her finances was intentional. In such a case, a Deputy might be also subject to statutory responsibility.
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It was found that the Act on the Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator, like other legislation, does not contain provisions which expressly forbid participation of the Deputies and Senators in international conferences and acceptation of remuneration for these activities. However, participation in foreign conference by a Deputy and acceptance of any gratuity therefor should not undermine the confidence of voters. To determine, if voters confidence may be affected, factors such as: the nature of the organizer of the conference, the theme of the conference and subject matter of the presentation given must be taken into account. The author points out that giving a speech at a foreign conference by a Deputy does not need to be reported to the Marshal of the Sejm in accordance with Article 33 para. 1 of the Act on the Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator, if preparation and giving the lecture are subject to copyright.
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Article 184 para. 1 of the Standing Orders of the Sejm obligates the Marshal of the Sejm to give the floor regardless of the orders of the day for the sitting or in respect of the debate to claim rectification. Only the Deputies to the Sejm are entitled to make rectifications. Rectifications can only refer to “statements that has been misunderstood or imprecisely quoted,” and notice of intention to use the remedy of rectification under this procedure is a direct response to the statement of another Deputy or any other participant in the sitting of the Sejm. For assessing the admissibility of rectification request it does not matter whether the author of the rectified statements directly mentioned the specific individuals whose statements he/she quotes giving their names. Presented rectification is not subject to debate or vote. A rectification should take the form of indicative sentence. In a situation where the Deputy’s statement does not satisfy the requirements relating to rectification, the Marshal of the Sejm has the right, and even the obligation, to reproach the Deputy, and to discontinue his/her speech.
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In the opinion it was stated that although examining identity documents is associated with a temporary restriction of freedom of a Deputy by an authorized body, it does not constitute a violation of the privilege of parliamentary inviolability. Undertaking Deputy’s activities related to the exercise of the mandate in a border zone, does not require an appropriate consent. The privilege of inviolability does not absolve the Deputy from the obligation to respect the law. As a rule, a Border Guard officer cannot detain the Deputy during performing activities falling within the scope of the parliamentary mandate in the border zone. Deputies may be detained only in the event of joint fulfillment of requirements provided in the Article 105 para. 5 of the Constitution.
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The opinion relates to the use of the term “occasional “ in the context of provision of office space to a Deputy for meetings with voters. This cannot apply to fixed, regular meetings of a Member of Parliament with voters, but only occasional, irregular work on duty. Even if governmental or local administration authorities are obliged to provide premises for the duration of such occasional work, the way (form) in which such premises are provided is at the discretion of these authorities, which means possibility – but not a necessity – to provide office space without charge.
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Assignment is the transfer of rights deriving from the insurance contract, which means that the entity to which the transfer is made becomes administrator of the rights to the subject of the assignment. The Deputy as an assignor in the case of assignment the rights under life insurance policies at bank does not have to demonstrate it in the Section I of declaration of property status (“Money stock”), but the Deputy should take it in into account in Section XI (“Monetary liabilities”) to demonstrate the conditions under which the loan was granted, ie. the obligations to the bank.
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Providing legal advice in the deputy’s office is admissible, because stays within the scope of the so-called field activities of Deputies. The author pays attention to the necessity of fulfilling the conditions of admissibility of such activity, which include primarily a gratuitous nature of the advice. In addition, these consultations should not be a sole or a main form of activity of the Deputy’s office. The author emphasizes the need of a statutory regulation of legal advisory activities in Deputies’ offices.
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The subject of the opinion is the issue, whether a Deputy as a natural person could process personal data and whether processing the data must be notified to the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection. The author claims that parliamentary activities might involve processing personal data. However, in most situations the possibility of processing of sensitive data by a Deputy must be excluded. The duty to register a set of personal data concerns these Deputies who process such data under statutory rules beyond indicated exceptions.
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A restriction concerning conducting business activity set out in the aforementioned provisions should refer to State property understood as a property of the State Treasury and the one of State legal persons. After an analysis, while agreeing with the view that tenancy (similarly to lease) should not be classified as an economic activity, and bearing in mind the principle that in view of the ambiguity of the regulations, norms determining the prohibition should not be interpreted restrictively, the author expresses a view that the prohibition provided in Article 34 para. 1 of the act does not apply to the lease of agricultural land by a Deputy to a company wholly owned by the State Treasury.
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In the opinion of the expert, a Deputy is not an employee and his/her function cannot be treated as a managerial or independent position within the meaning of labour law. Parliamentary salary is not a remuneration for work, and employment of Deputies and Senators does not take place within the scope of an employment relationship. It is a special type of employment called a “systemic” or “constitutional“ one.
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The opinion states that the council (sejmik) should “adopt a position” regarding comments and motions of a Deputy. However, motions submitted by the Deputy do not initiate - contrary Deputies’ interventions - any separate, formalized procedure for their consideration by councillors. If the Deputy put forward a motion regarding matters which, according to provisions of statutes or articles of organisation of a municipality (district, voivodship), fall within exclusive rights of councilors (e.g. a legislative initiative) or bodies of a given local government unit or other entities, the council (sejmik) cannot - as unacceptable – consider them. If they meet formal requirements and the way they are formulated enables putting them to a vote, the decision should be made in this form.
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