{"id":5035,"date":"2025-02-06T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/02\/judgment-of-the-general-court-second-chamber-extended-composition-of-5-february-2025-republic-of-poland-v-european-commission-law-governing-the-institutions-partial-failure-to-comply-with\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:17:50","slug":"judgment-of-the-general-court-second-chamber-extended-composition-of-5-february-2025-republic-of-poland-v-european-commission-law-governing-the-institutions-partial-failure-to-comply-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/02\/judgment-of-the-general-court-second-chamber-extended-composition-of-5-february-2025-republic-of-poland-v-european-commission-law-governing-the-institutions-partial-failure-to-comply-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber, Extended Composition) of 5 February 2025.Republic of Poland v European Commission.Law governing the institutions \u2013 Partial failure to comply with an order of the Court of Justice imposing interim measures in the context of an action for failure to fulfil obligations \u2013 Periodic penalty payment \u2013 Recovery of amounts receivable by offsetting \u2013 Article 101(1) and Article 102 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018\/1046 \u2013 Jurisdiction of the General Court.Case T-830\/22."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This judgment concerns a dispute between Poland and the European Commission regarding penalty payments imposed by the Court of Justice of the EU. Here are the key points: 1. The case relates to Poland&#8217;s failure to comply with interim measures ordered by the Court of Justice regarding Poland&#8217;s judicial reforms. The Court had ordered Poland to suspend certain provisions affecting judicial independence and imposed a daily penalty payment of \u20ac1 million for non-compliance. 2. The judgment addresses Poland&#8217;s challenge to the Commission&#8217;s decisions to recover penalty payments by offsetting them against EU funds due to Poland. Poland argued that after adopting new legislation in June 2022, it was no longer required to pay the penalties. 3. The key provisions examined include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Commission&#8217;s authority to recover penalty payments through offsetting under the EU Financial Regulation<\/li>\n<li>The Court&#8217;s jurisdiction to review such Commission decisions<\/li>\n<li>The continuing validity of penalty payments even after partial compliance with Court orders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The Court rejected Poland&#8217;s arguments and upheld the Commission&#8217;s recovery decisions, confirming that partial compliance did not eliminate the obligation to pay the full penalty amount until complete compliance was achieved. The judgment clarifies important aspects of the EU&#8217;s enforcement mechanisms regarding rule of law issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/AUTO\/?uri=CELEX:62022TJ0830\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This judgment concerns a dispute between Poland and the European Commission regarding penalty payments imposed by the Court of Justice of the EU. Here are the key points: 1. The case relates to Poland&#8217;s failure to comply with interim measures ordered by the Court of Justice regarding Poland&#8217;s judicial reforms. The Court had ordered Poland&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-legislation-general-en","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}