Following a postponement decided on 19 September, just ahead of the informal summit in Salzburg, the Commission confirmed on Monday 24 September that it had decided to refer the Polish law on the country's Supreme Court to the European Court of Justice urgently.
The decision to refer the case to the Court of Justice had been discussed at length by the College of Commissioners on 19 September, at the request of Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, and it had been acknowledged...