Poland will abolish its controversial disciplinary chamber - a body overseeing the country's judges - after the EU argued that it was "not compatible" with the bloc's laws.

"We will abolish the disciplinary chamber in the form in which it currently operates, and the subject of the dispute [with the EU] will thus disappear," said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.

The chamber was created in 2017, and it had the power to cut a judge's salary or remove their immunity.

The Polish government had said that the body was necessary to fight corruption. But critics argued that it suppressed opposition to the government's legal changes.

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In April, the European Union's top court, the European Court of Justice, told Poland that it had to suspend the chamber, arguing that it was not an independent body and went against EU law. 

The European Commission gave the country until August 16 to follow the injunction, or face fines.

Earlier this week Poland partially suspended the chamber, two days before Kaczynski announced the planned reforms, and less than two weeks before the EU's deadline.