It still remains unclear whether the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party will respect the expected ECJ's ruling regarding the Polish Supreme Court law.
On the one hand, all EU Member States are must and should respect such rulings, but on the other, PiS members are not giving an unequivocal reassurance that they will.
Asked on the issue, the spokesperson for the new National Council of the Judiciary, Maciej Mitera has said: "it's a ruling by the (European) Court of Justice and every authority must abide by those rulings".
At the same time he added that there are certain circumstances under which verdicts are impossible to implement.
Many judicial experts warn that non-compliance with ECJ's ruling may leave Poland excluded from the European Union.
Polish Supreme Court (SN) sent five questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Monday and asked for a preliminary ruling.
The questions concern the provision of the Supreme Court law regarding sending judges aged 65 or older to retirement, including the court's president Małgorzata Gersdorf.
The SN issued a resolution suspending the execution of the questioned law until the CJEU passes its ruling.
Polish Judiciary Council responded with a statement that it's not going to submit to the resolution.
The judiciary council is yet another institution that criticises the ruling of the Supreme Court. The first insitutuion to do so was the Chancellery of the President.
"This ruling may lead to absurd situations. Any court, giving any verdict will be able to suspend any bill or part of it," said the spokesperson for the President, Krzysztof Łapiński.
The ECJ might answer the questions sent by the Polish court faster, thanks to a special accelerated procedure. Whether the European court chooses this procedure, will be known in the beginning of September.
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