59In its request of 3 July 2019 and in the further submissions which it addressed to the Court on 29 July and 16 September 2019, the Polish Government also states that it does not share the Opinion of the Advocate General, which, it claims, contain certain contradictions and are based, as is clear from certain points thereof and from corresponding points in the Opinion of the Advocate General made on 11 April 2019 in Commission v Poland (Independence of the Supreme Court) (C‑619/18, EU:C:2019:325), on an erroneous interpretation of the past case-law of the Court, in particular of the judgment of 27 February 2018, Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses (C‑64/16, EU:C:2018:117). Furthermore, the Polish Government submits that the Advocate General’s Opinion contains a number of new arguments and positions, which have not been sufficiently aired. However, in the light of their supreme importance and fundamental implications for the various legal models applicable in the Member States as regards the composition of the national councils of the judiciary and the processes for judicial appointments, it claims that those factors justify a reopening of the oral part of the procedure in order to allow all the Member States to make submissions on the matter. In its request of 7 November 2019, in support of which it provided the minutes of a hearing of the Sąd Okręgowy w Krakowie (District Court, Kraków, Poland) of 6 September 2019, the Polish Government submits that that document raises the prospect that the judgment to be delivered by the Court in the present cases could give rise to legal uncertainty in Poland and that it thus discloses a new fact which is of such a nature as to be a decisive factor for the decision of the Court.
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