239However, it appears essential, in order to preserve the independence of the courts and, in so doing, to prevent the disciplinary regime from being diverted from its legitimate purposes and used to exert political control over judicial decisions or pressure on judges, that the fact that a judicial decision contains a possible error in the interpretation and application of national and EU law, or in the assessment of the facts and the appraisal of the evidence, cannot in itself trigger the disciplinary liability of the judge concerned (judgment of 15 July 2021, Commission v Poland (Disciplinary regime for judges), C‑791/19, EU:C:2021:596, paragraph 138 and the case-law cited).
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