Hearing of the Constitutional Tribunal on EU law interrupted for the fourth time
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For the fourth time, the Constitutional Tribunal interrupted the hearing at which it deals with the constitutionality of EU law. In the background are negotiations on the Polish Reconstruction Plan conducted by the Polish government with Brussels.
"TK will continue the hearing on October 7," Julia Przyłębska, TK President, announced after four hours of the session.
The hearing has been held intermittently since July.
On Thursday, members of the adjudicating panel asked questions to participants in the proceedings. It was clear that they did not care about a quick solution, because they asked, inter alia, for matters not related to the proceedings pending before the Constitutional Tribunal.
The case pending before the Constitutional Tribunal was initiated in March by Mateusz Morawiecki. The Prime Minister asked for an examination of the constitutionality of the provisions of the EU Treaty (TEU), which is the basis of the Union. Morawiecki questions their interpretation made by the European Court of Justice in judgments concerning the judiciary.
The EC and Warsaw are currently conducting negotiations on the Polish Reconstruction Plan (KPO) – €23.9 billion in subsidies for Poland. The European Commission suspended its approval after the government failed to implement the July rulings of the CJEU in the case of the Disciplinary Chamber.
The European Commission is to demand from Poland the full liquidation of the Disciplinary Chamber and the consequences of its decisions, and the repair of the disciplinary system in line with the CJEU judgment by June 2022 at the latest. In return, the KPO would be approved by November.
