The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Michal Bobek, delivered his Opinion on Wednesday 23 September on the nature, legal value and effects of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) and the periodic reports adopted on the basis of that mechanism (Joined Cases C-83/19, C-127/19 and C-195/19, as well as Cases C-291/19, C-355/19 and C-397/19).
His Opinion follows requests made to the Court by Romania after the CVM reports for the years 2018 and...