D. K. (Dessaisissement d'un juge) (Rule of law - Principle of the irremovability of judges and judicial independence - Resolution of the college of a national court withdrawing all cases from a judge - Judgment)

( Reference for a preliminary ruling - Rule of law - Second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU - Principle of the irremovability of judges and judicial independence - Resolution of the college of a national court withdrawing all cases from a judge - Lack of objective criteria for taking a withdrawal decision - Lack of obligation to state reasons for such a decision - Primacy of EU law - Obligation to disapply such a decision to withdraw cases )

REQUESTS for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Sąd Okręgowy w Słupsku (Regional Court, Słupsk, Poland), made by decision of 20 October 2021, received at the Court on 25 October 2021, in the criminal proceedings against

composed of I. Jarukaitis (Rapporteur), President of the Fourth Chamber, acting as President of the Fifth Chamber, D. Gratsias and E. Regan, Judges,

having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 24 January 2024,

– the Prokuratura Rejonowa w Bytowie, by T. Rutkowska- Szmydyńska, Prokurator Regionalny w Gdańsku,