The European Commission sent a further letter of formal notice to Poland on Thursday 3 December concerning the continued functioning of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, to which Warsaw will have to reply within a month.
This letter is in addition to a first letter of formal notice sent at the end of April (see EUROPE B12477A1) on legislative changes affecting the judicial system (the ‘muzzle’ law adopted at the end of 2019), but it does not replace the complaints...