Theœ European Public Prosecutor's Office: The Challenges Ahead
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This
book explores the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), the
creation of which was approved in the Regulation adopted by the Justice
and Home Affairs (JHA) Council on 12 October 2017. The EPPO will be an
independent European prosecution office tasked with investigating and
prosecuting those crimes defined in the recently adopted Regulation
2017/1371 on combating fraud against the Union's financial interests by
means of criminal law. As such, it will be a new actor on the EU
landscape, governed by the principle of loyal cooperation with the
national prosecuting authorities. This work clarifies some of the
challenges that member states will have to face when dealing with a
supranational prosecution authority. In addition, it provides guidelines
on how to implement the present Regulation while respecting the
fundamental rights of defendants in criminal proceedings. The book is of
special interest in so far as the analysis and perspective of academics
is completed with the contributions of legal experts who have either
been involved in the negotiations to establish the European public
prosecutor or will be closely linked, as public prosecutors, to the
functioning of the future European public prosecutor's office.--
