Judgment_paragraph 136 · Criminal proceedings against C.I. and Others (C-107/23 PPU)

136As regards, more specifically, the disciplinary liability that judges may incur, under the legislation of a Member State, in the event of failure to comply with the decisions of the constitutional court and of the supreme court of that Member State, the fact that a national court performs the tasks entrusted to it by the Treaties and fulfils its obligations under the Treaties, by giving effect – in accordance with the principle of the primacy of EU law – to a provision of EU law such as Article 325(1) TFEU or Article 2(1) of the PFI Convention and to the interpretation given to it by the Court, cannot, by definition, be regarded as a disciplinary offence on the part of judges sitting in that court without that provision and that principle being infringed ipso facto (see, to that effect, judgments of 21 December 2021, Euro Box Promotion and Others, C‑357/19, C‑379/19, C‑547/19, C‑811/19 and C‑840/19, EU:C:2021:1034, paragraph 260, and of 13 July 2023, YP and Others (Lifting of a judge’s immunity and his or her suspension from duties), C‑615/20 and C‑671/20, EU:C:2023:562, paragraph 85 and the case-law cited).

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