The current repurposing of the principle of effet utile of European Union law can be found in the revolutionary steps taken by the Court of Justice in its application of Article 19 TEU. The implicit goal of this recent body of case-law is to equip national judges with the tools to resist domestic judicial reforms that affect their freedom to adjudicate independently. Considering Simmenthal to Unibet, Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses to the latest case-law relating to the organisation of national judiciaries, this article contends that, while the case-law on judicial independence is unprecedented, the Court of Justice has gone to great lengths to ensure that the developments in EU law precipitated by its rulings are grounded in established doctrine. They follow a line of case-law that builds on the principle of primacy of EU law and the obligation to guarantee the effectiveness of EU law in the domestic legal order. Further, the current trajectory is for Article 19 TEU to form the operational basis of review of any judicially minded reforms, whether they be organisational (Article 19 TEU, together with Article 47 CFREU), limit actually or potentially the freedom for dialogue between national courts and the Court of Justice (Article 19 TEU together with Article 267 TFEU and Article 47 CFREU) or where they reduce the protection of the value of the rule of law (Article 19 TEU, Article 2 TEU, Article 49 TEU and Article 47 CFREU), with potential implications for the effective application in EU law of the principle of mutual trust.

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国家司法机构的有效利用和（重新）组织：对一个独特的重要挑战的不那么独特的制度反应？

当前对欧盟法律有效利用原则的重新定位可以从欧洲法院在适用 TEU 第 19 条时采取的革命性步骤中找到。这一最新判例法的隐含目标是为国家法官提供工具，以抵制影响他们独立裁决自由的国内司法改革。考虑从西门塔尔到Unibet，Associação Sindical dos Juízes 葡萄牙人对于与国家司法机构组织有关的最新判例法，本文认为，尽管关于司法独立的判例法是史无前例的，但欧洲法院已竭尽全力确保其所促成的欧盟法律的发展裁决以既定原则为基础。他们遵循建立在欧盟法律至上原则和保证欧盟法律在国内法律秩序中的有效性的义务的判例法路线。此外，目前的轨迹是让第 19 条 TEU 成为审查任何具有司法意识的改革的操作基础，无论它们是否是组织性的（第 19 条 TEU，连同第 47 条 CFREU），