The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that Poland’s December 2019 law on the independence and privacy of judges was incompatible with EU law, in a judgment handed down on Monday 5 June (Case C-204/21).
The Commission had lodged an appeal against the law giving the Polish Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Chamber, whose independence and impartiality are not guaranteed, jurisdiction to rule on cases directly affecting the status of judges and the performance of their...