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Document 62018CA0585
Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — A. K. v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (C-585/18) and CP (C-624/18), DO (C-625/18) v Sąd Najwyższy, (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Non-discrimination on the ground of age — Lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) — Article 9(1) — Right to a remedy — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Effective judicial protection — Principle of judicial independence — Creation of a new chamber of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court) with jurisdiction inter alia for cases of retiring the judges of that court — Chamber formed by judges newly appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland on a proposal of the National Council of the Judiciary — Independence of that council — Power to disapply national legislation not in conformity with EU law — Primacy of EU law)
Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — A. K. v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (C-585/18) and CP (C-624/18), DO (C-625/18) v Sąd Najwyższy, (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Non-discrimination on the ground of age — Lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) — Article 9(1) — Right to a remedy — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Effective judicial protection — Principle of judicial independence — Creation of a new chamber of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court) with jurisdiction inter alia for cases of retiring the judges of that court — Chamber formed by judges newly appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland on a proposal of the National Council of the Judiciary — Independence of that council — Power to disapply national legislation not in conformity with EU law — Primacy of EU law)
Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — A. K. v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (C-585/18) and CP (C-624/18), DO (C-625/18) v Sąd Najwyższy, (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Non-discrimination on the ground of age — Lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) — Article 9(1) — Right to a remedy — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Effective judicial protection — Principle of judicial independence — Creation of a new chamber of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court) with jurisdiction inter alia for cases of retiring the judges of that court — Chamber formed by judges newly appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland on a proposal of the National Council of the Judiciary — Independence of that council — Power to disapply national legislation not in conformity with EU law — Primacy of EU law)
IO C 27, 27.1.2020, p. 6–7
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
27.1.2020 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 27/6 |
Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 November 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — A. K. v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (C-585/18) and CP (C-624/18), DO (C-625/18) v Sąd Najwyższy,
(Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18) (1)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2000/78/EC - Equal treatment in employment and occupation - Non-discrimination on the ground of age - Lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) - Article 9(1) - Right to a remedy - Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Effective judicial protection - Principle of judicial independence - Creation of a new chamber of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court) with jurisdiction inter alia for cases of retiring the judges of that court - Chamber formed by judges newly appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland on a proposal of the National Council of the Judiciary - Independence of that council - Power to disapply national legislation not in conformity with EU law - Primacy of EU law)
(2020/C 27/07)
Language of the case: Polish
Referring court
Sąd Najwyższy
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: A. K. (C-585/18), CP (C-624/18), DO (C-625/18)
Defendant: Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (C-585/18), Sąd Najwyższy, (C-624/18), (C-625/18)
Third party: Prokurator Generalny, represented by the Prokuratura Krajowa
Operative part of the judgment
1. |
It is no longer necessary to answer questions referred by the Izba Pracy i Ubezpieczeń Społecznych (Labour and Social Insurance Chamber) of the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) in Case C-585/18 or the first question referred by the same court in Cases C-624/18 and C-625/18. |
2. |
The answer to the second and third questions referred by the referring court in Cases C-624/18 and C-625/18 is as follows:
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