Keywords

• Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
• Rule of law
• Second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU
• Effective judicial protection in the fields covered by Union law
• Principles of the irremovability of judges and judicial independence
• Lowering of the retirement age of Supreme Court judges
• Application to judges in post
• Possibility of continuing to carry out the duties of judge beyond that age subject to obtaining authorisation granted by discretionary decision of the President of the Republic.