Art. 9 Protocol betreffende de voorrechten en immuniteiten van de Europese Organisatie voor de exploitatie van meteorologische satellieten "EUMETSAT"

(1). Representatives of Member States shall, while exercising their official functions and in the course of their journeys to and from the place of meeting, enjoy the following privileges and immunities: immunity from arrest and detention, and from seizure of their personal luggage, except in the case of a grave crime or when found committing, attempting to commit or just having committed an offence; immunity from jurisdiction, even after the termination of their mission, in respect of acts, including words spoken and written, done by them in the exercise of their functions; this immunity shall not apply, however, in the case of a traffic offence committed by a representative of a Member State, nor in the case of damage caused by a vehicle or other means of transport belonging to or driven by him; inviolability for all their official papers and documents; exemption from all measures restricting immigration and from aliens' registration formalities; the same treatment in the matter of currency and exchange regulations as is accorded to the representatives of foreign governments on temporary official missions; the same treatment in the matter of customs as regards their personal luggage as is accorded to the representatives of foreign governments on temporary official missions. (2). Privileges and immunities are accorded to representatives of Member States not for their personal advantage but in order to ensure complete independence in the exercise of their functions in connection with EUMETSAT. Consequently, a Member State has the duty to waive the immunity of a representative wherever retaining it would impede the course of justice and it can be waived without prejudicing the purposes for which it was accorded. (3). No Member State shall be obliged to accord privileges and immunities to its own representatives.

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