30/07/2021 (Agence Europe) – The first president of Poland’s Supreme Court, Małgorzata Manowska, has appealed to the country’s president and other senior figures to change the law on the disciplinary regime for judges, which has been criticised by the EU Court of Justice, the AP reported on Friday 30 July. She has written to President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament asking for the law to be “quickly amended” to close its loopholes and bring it into line with EU law. Ms Manowska also said that the legal dispute with the EU had paralysed the disciplinary proceedings. The European Commission has given Poland until 16 August to comply with the various rulings of the EU Court of Justice on this disciplinary regime, or face financial penalties (see EUROPE 12766/3). (SP)