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21.02.2024Polish Minister of Justice presents Action Plan for restoring the rule of lawMinister of Justice Adam Bodnar and Deputy Minister Krzysztof Śmiszek presented the Polish Action Plan for restoring the rule of law at a meeting of the General Affairs Council of the European Union today. The main points of the planned reform concern the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), the Supreme Court (SN), the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), and the separation of the office of the Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor General.
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05.02.2024Minister Adam Bodnar in Brussels: "I have a dream that on May 1, 2024, Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union will no longer weigh upon us.""We are determined to work towards restoring the rule of law in Poland. My dream is that on May 1, 2024, as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union, Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union will no longer weigh upon us," said Justice Minister Adam Bodnar at a press conference after a two-day meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) in Brussels.
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05.02.2024Establishment of the Team for Selecting Candidates for the European ProsecutorOn January 31, 2024, Minister of Justice and Attorney General Adam Bodnar issued an order to establish a team for selecting candidates for the position of European Prosecutor. Poland, at the request of Minister Bodnar, is in the process of joining the European Public Prosecutor's Office.
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05.02.2024Informal meeting of Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs in Brussels January 25, 2024Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar and Deputy Minister Krzysztof Śmiszek will represent Poland at the informal meeting of the EU Council on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on January 26, 2024.
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29.01.2024The Minister of Justice appointed Disciplinary Commissioners of the Minister of JusticeThe Minister of Justice appointed Judge Grzegorz Kasicki and Judge Włodzimierz Brazewicz as Disciplinary Commissioners of the Minister of Justice. He did this on the basis of the institution of commissioners of the Minister of Justice (so-called ‘ad hoc commissioners’), which was introduced in Article 112 b of the Law on the Structure of the Ordinary Courts. These judges have high professional and ethical standards.
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29.01.2024Communication of the Minister of Justice on the standards regarding the right to a fair trialAs the Act amending the Act on the Amendment of the Act on the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ) and Certain Other Acts of 8 December 2017 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 3) brought about the politicization of the procedure of selecting judge-members of the NCJ, which was in conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, this body, which is key to maintaining the independence of the Polish judiciary, lost the guarantee of its independence from the legislative and executive authorities. Consequently, the status of judges appointed with the participation of this body became defective, as is confirmed by a number of judgments of both international tribunals and Polish courts.