Open Letter to the European Commission – Rule of Law Crisis in Poland

Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission

Věra Jourová
Vice-President of the European Commission

Didier Reynders
Member of the European Commission

Dear President,
Dear Vice-President,
Dear Commissioner,

Further to the letter of December 2020, endorsed by more than 5,000 judges and prosecutors of the Member States, we, the representatives of Polish civil society organisations and European scholars specialising in EU law and human rights, are writing to you once again in connection with the worsening rule of law crisis in Poland. We have now reached a stage where independent judges seeking to apply EU law and the Court of Justice’s judgments are threatened with abusive criminal charges and coercive measures. We urge you therefore to urgently adopt concrete legal measures to prevent the further destruction of the rule of law in Poland.

In particular, we would like to ask you to immediately refer Poland to the Court of Justice regarding the “Muzzle Law” and the functioning of the Disciplinary Chamber, and to simultaneously submit a comprehensive application for interim measures – with the aim of having them granted as soon as possible. The content of such a request and its grounds are set out later in this letter.

Full content of the open letter sent on the 28th of March, 2021 and the list of the signatories:

• Open Letter to the European Commission