Judgment_paragraph 123 · A.B. and Others v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa and Others (C-824/18)

123However, the Court has also stated that it is still necessary to ensure that the substantive conditions and procedural rules governing the adoption of those appointment decisions are such that they cannot give rise to reasonable doubts, in the minds of individuals, as to the imperviousness of the judges concerned to external factors and as to their neutrality with respect to the interests before them, once appointed as judges, and that it is important, inter alia, in that perspective, that those conditions and procedural rules are drafted in a way which meets the requirements set out in paragraph 119 of this judgment (judgment in A. K. and Others, paragraphs 134 and 135 and the case-law cited).