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Press and Information
General Court of the European Union
PRESS RELEASE No
Luxembourg,
April
Judgment in
Joined
Roos and others v Parliament
D’Amato
and others v Parliament
Rooken
COVID certificate and access to the buildings of the European Parliament: the
General Court of the European Union d
ismisses the action of certain
Members of
the European Parliament
The access conditions
do not disproportionately or unreasonably affe
ct the free and
dependent
exercise of the Member’s
mandate
October
2021, the Bureau of the European Parliament
introduced exceptional health and
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privileges and
immunities of the European Union
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
that the
Parliament could not adopt the internal organisation measures at issue
On the contrary, the Rules
of Procedure expressl
y provide that the right of Members
o participate actively in the Parliament
work is to
be exercised in accordance with
those rules.
In the third place, the
General
Court holds that the processing of personal data by the Parliament
under the contested decision
is not unlawful or unfair. First, t
he contested decision, adopted on the
basis of the power of internal organisation arising under the TFEU,
constitutes
a legal basis for the
processing of the data contained in COVID certificates.
On that basis, the
General
Court notes
that that processing
pursu
EU general public interest
, namely, the protection of public health.
Secondly, the processing of the data is transparent and fair, as the Parliament first provided the
individuals concerned with infor
mation concerning further processing
of data for a
purpose other
than that for which those data were initially obtained
In the fourth place, the
General
Court considers that the contested decision is not an infringement
or a
disproportionate infringement of
the right to physical integrity, the principles of eq
ual treatment
discrimination, the right to free and informed consent
to any medical treatment, the right to