Criminal-Law Protection of the Financial Interests of the Community and the Establishment of a European Prosecutor - Analysis of the European Commission's Green Paper
Study
01-05-2003
This study provides a rapid analysis of the main issues raised in the European Commission's Green Paper on Penal Protection of the EU's Financial Interests and on the Creation of a European Public Prosecutor. It examines the Commission's ideas on the Structure and Organisation of the Prosecutor's Office and the Legal Questions associated with these. Specific issues raised are the Question of the Transfer and Admissibility of evidence, the Protection of the Rights of the accused and the Relationship of the Prosecutor with the European Community's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
Study
External author
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg/BR.
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Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- appointment of members
- cooperation policy
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European Anti-fraud Office
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- fraud against the EU
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- judicial cooperation
- justice
- LAW
- legal basis
- mutual recognition principle
- organisation of the legal system
- proof
- public prosecutor's department