The National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) cannot suspend the negative opinions regarding prolonging the tenures of three Supreme Court (SN) judges, the KRS Office announced on Monday.
The National Council of the Judiciary will not comply with the Supreme Court's resolution regarding suspending the execution negative opinions on prolonging the tenures of three SN judges, the KRS Office announced on Monday.
As the KRS indicated, the resolutions cannot be suspended as they have been already sent to the President's Chancellery.
The KRS Office has also said that the Council is not an addressee of an appeal to "suspend execution" of the Supreme Court law provisions. The Judiciary Council is not dealing with any proceedings based on that law, the KRS informed.
Judges who want to continue working in Poland's Supreme Court can do so until the European Union's top court rules on the legality of measures effectively allowing the government to choose the court's staff, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is assessing judicial reforms by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party that are seen by human rights and opposition groups as undermining democracy and judges' independence.
Polish Supreme Court spokesman Justice Michał Laskowski said President Andrzej Duda and the National Judiciary Council (KRS), which decides judicial appointments, should hold off from making any decisions about the court's members pending the ECJ's verdict.
"The decision is being sent to the (presidential) Chancellery and the KRS and they both should stop actions ... until the ruling is made," he told a news conference.
The presidential chancellery issued a statement saying the Supreme Court's decision is not valid.
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