nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211126-215840-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211126s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211126-215840-0 doi eng 342 23 Bárd, Petra Author aut The Sanctity of Preliminary References - An analysis of the CJEU decision C-564/19 IS Bárd, Petra Verfassungsblog 2021-11-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A national supreme court must not declare a request for a preliminary ruling by a lower court unlawful on the ground that the referred questions are irrelevant and unnecessary for the original case. This has been held by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in its important decision C-564/19 IS. In addition, the CJEU held that EU law also precludes disciplinary proceedings from being brought against national judges on the ground that they made a reference for a preliminary ruling. The case also raises important questions to what extent preliminary rulings can be effective against rule-of-law decline and make up for political EU institutions’ failure to use adequate EU tools of supervision and enforcement. CC BY-SA 4.0 Disciplinary Proceedings European Court of Justice Hungarian Supreme Court judicial independence preliminary reference Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-sanctity-of-preliminary-references/ raw object