56As regards the requirement of independence considered under its second — and internal — aspect, referred to in paragraph 50 above, as noted by the Advocate General in point 51 of her Opinion, it is sufficient to state that the Court has had occasion to answer a number of requests for preliminary rulings concerning the status of judges, without casting doubt on the independence of the referring courts (see, to that effect, judgment of 13 June 2017, Florescu and Others, C‑258/14, EU:C:2017:448; of 27 February 2018, Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses, C‑64/16, EU:C:2018:117; of 7 February 2019, Escribano Vindel, C‑49/18, EU:C:2019:106; and of 19 November 2019, A. K. and Others (Independence of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court), C‑585/18, C‑624/18 and C‑625/18, EU:C:2019:982).
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