Poland gets formal EU demand to pay fines over judicial regime

21.01.2022 [20:34]
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Baku, January 21, AZERTAC

The European Commission has sent Poland formal notice to pay some 70 million euros in fines for failing to reverse an illegal disciplinary regime for judges.

Last October the top EU court fined Warsaw for failing to immediately halt the work of the Polish Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Chamber pending a final verdict on the scheme.

The Commission says the disciplinary system allows for political meddling in the courts and hence violates the laws in the 27-nation EU, as well as in Poland, that establish judicial independence.

The fines amount to around 70 million euros and that the Commission would give Warsaw some 45 days to pay.

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