The Commission notes that the procedural protection of the ante juicio corresponds to a mechanism of “inviolability”, with the notable feature, however, that in the ante juicio the Congress performs itself the prosecution function if it upholds the accusation. The Venice Commission has previously expressed the view that inviolability is a useful guarantee for high judges, but the lifting of inviolability should be within the competence of a judicial body such as the Judicial Council or the Constitutional Court, and not of the Congress. The Commission therefore makes this recommendation to the Peruvian authorities, even if, as the authorities have argued, a similar competence does not exist as such in the constitutional system of Peru.