… In Inspektorat kam Visshia sadeben savet (30 April 2025, C‑313/23, C‑316/23, C-332/23, EU:C:2025:303), the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter the CJEU) held, inter alia, that
Article
19 of the Treaty on the EU, read in conjunction with
Article
47
of the
Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the EU, must be interpreted as meaning that the principle of judicial
independence
precludes a practice under which the members of a judicial body who are competent notably to investigate the activity …
…
Article
87
Judicial
independence
“1. Justice is delivered by courts composed of permanent judges who enjoy personal and functional
independence
...
...”
Article
88
Guarantees of
independence
of members of the judiciary, remuneration and secondments
“1. Members of the judiciary are appointed by Presidential Decree, in accordance with a law which provides for the qualifications and the selection procedure, and are permanent.
2. …
… The status of all members of the judiciary, including prosecutors, was, at the relevant time, regulated in a uniform way by Law No. 1756/1988 (see also paragraph 36 above) regarding appointment (
Articles
34-39), rights (
Articles
43-
47
), transfers and secondments (
Articles
49-52), seniority and precedence (
Articles
54-55), suspension (
Articles
56‑57) and termination of career (
Articles
58-60), all members of the judiciary being permanent (
Article
53) and their supervision (
Articles
80-88) and disciplinary …