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Warsaw, 1st of October 2020. To the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen the Vice President of the European Commission Viera Jourova the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders Dear President von der Leyen, Dear Vice President Jourova, Dear Commissioner Reynders, the Board of the Association of Polish Judges IUSTITIA assures you of the highest respect for the actions taken so far by the European Commission to defend the rule of law in Poland. Out of co...

On 5 October 2020, in Warsaw, the politicised Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court will hold a meeting to waive judge Igor Tuleya’s immunity. This is another act of negating the validity of the ruling of the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) by the Disciplinary Chamber. In the judgment of 8 April 2020, case C-791/19 Commission v. Poland, the CJEU ordered the suspension of the Disciplinary Chamber’s activity in cases of disciplinary liability of judges. The ...

The Board of the Association of Polish Judges IUSTITIA highly negatively perceives the actions of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland, especially the fact that the Chamber ignores the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU Grand Chamber) ruling of 8 April 2020, in Case C-791/19 Commission v. Poland, suspending the application of the national provisions concerning the jurisdiction of the Disciplinary Chamber in disciplinary proceedings against judges. The Disciplinary Ch...

Dear President von der Leyen, In your recent State of the Union address, you rightly emphasized that “breaches of the rule of law cannot be tolerated.” We are sorry to say we are seeing ample evidence to the contrary (see our previous open letters here and here). The current Commission is failing to project any sense of urgency (at least, in public view) around this issue, while Polish authorities continue to openly abuse, harass and intimidate judges and prosecutors who are seeking to de...