… Van Nuffel, acting as Agents,
after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 23 November 2023,
gives the following
Judgment
1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of
Article
2,
Article
6(1) and (3) and the second subparagraph of
Article
19(1) TEU, read in conjunction with
Article
47
of the
Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the
Charter
’), and the principle of the primacy of EU law.
2 The request has been made in criminal proceedings …
… adoption of the ZIDZSV, it was common ground that the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad (Specialised Criminal Court) met the requirements of the second subparagraph of
Article
19(1) TEU, the third paragraph of
Article
267 TFEU and the second paragraph of
Article
47
of the
Charter
.
20 Moreover, according to the referring court, the grounds put forward by the Bulgarian legislature to reach the conclusion that the specialised criminal courts were not
independent
and did not protect the constitutional …
… 2,
Article
6(1) and (3) and the second subparagraph of
Article
19(1) TEU, read in conjunction with
Article
47
of the
Charter
, must be interpreted as precluding the members of a court abolished by a Member State in order to uphold the constitutional principle of the
independence
of the judiciary and the protection of the constitutional rights of citizens from being able to hear, as members of the court which has succeeded the court abolished in this way, some of the cases which have been brought …