85In its application, the Commission relies, in that regard, on the judgment 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, ‘the judgment in A. K. and Others’, EU:C:2019:982), and the judgment of 5 December 2019 (III PO 7/18) and the orders of 15 January 2020 (III PO 8/18 et III PO 9/18) of the Sąd Najwyższy (Izba Pracy i Ubezpieczeń Społecznych) (Supreme Court (Labour and Social Insurance Chamber), Poland), which was the referring court in the cases in the main proceedings giving rise to the judgment in A. K. and Others. It follows from those judicial decisions that an overall assessment relating, in particular, to the context and conditions in which the Disciplinary Chamber was established, its composition, the method of appointment of its members and the intervention, in that context, of the newly formed KRS, and certain of the characteristics of that chamber and the specific powers conferred on it, is such as to give rise to legitimate doubts, on the part of individuals, concerning the independence and impartiality of that chamber.
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