This financial sanction was requested on 7 September by the Commission, to whom this amount should be paid.
Le Monde with AFP
New episode in litigation between Brussels and Warsaw regarding the independence of justice. Wednesday, October 27, Poland has been condemned by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to pay the European Commission a penalty of one million euros per day. Warsaw did not end the activities of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, which, according to the EU, seriously threatens the independence of the judiciary in Poland. According to Warsaw, these reforms, set up in 2017, are necessary to eradicate corruption within the judicial system.
On July 15, the CJUE had ordered Poland to stop immediately the activities of this House. As this decision has not been respected, the European Executive had claimed the CJUE to impose sanctions, believing that “EU judicial systems must be independent and equitable”. “Compliance with the provisional measures ordered on 14 July is necessary in order to avoid serious and irreparable prejudice to the European Union’s legal order as well as the values on which this Union is based, in particular that of the State of right, “said the CJEU, based in Luxembourg, in a communiqué .
Increased voltages
The Chief of Polish Nationalist Conservative, Marefeusz Morawiecki, is committed to abolishing the disciplinary room, whose suppression had already been announced in August by Warsaw but who continues to function.
This lack of independence of Polish justice and the primacy of European law on national law were one of the dominant topics of the European summit of the twenty-seven at the end of last week. Tensions had increased since October 7th. That day, the Polish Constitutional Court had declared certain articles of European treaties incompatible with the National Constitution. A decision denounced by Brussels as an unprecedented attack against the primacy of European law and the jurisdiction of the CJEU.