Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 03/02/2021

Subject: The Court affirmed that successive amendments to the Polish Law on the National Council of the Judiciary which have the effect of removing effective judicial review of that council’s decisions proposing to the President of the Republic candidates for the office of judge at the Supreme Court are liable to infringe EU law. Where an infringement has been proved, the principle of the primacy of EU law requires the national court to disapply such amendments

Parties: A.B. e a. (Nomination des juges à la Cour suprême - Recours

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Justice: effective - Independent and impartial tribunal

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