Shifting Perspectives on the European Public Prosecutor's Office / edited by Willem Geelhoed, Leendert H. Erkelens, Arjen W.H. Meij.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geelhoed, Willem., Editor.

Erkelens, Leendert H., Editor.

Meij, Arjen W.H., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Europe.

Law.

International criminal law.

Constitutional law.

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Criminology.

European Law.

International Criminal Law.

Constitutional Law.

European Politics.

Local Subjects:

European Law.

International Criminal Law.

Constitutional Law.

European Politics.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book provides answers to the following questions. Is there a bright future ahead for a European Public Prosecutor’s Office? If so, is the regulation establishing the office sufficiently clear and balanced to attain that goal? Moreover, will the office be able to effectively fight fraud now damaging the EU's budget and will it respect the fundamental rights of the parties involved? Included are issues ranging from EU substantive and procedural criminal law, combatting EU fraud, the distribution of competences in European law enforcement, EU fundamental rights, to forum choice. The book's aim is to inform academics, policy-makers and criminal law practitioners about key issues surrounding the attribution of prosecutorial powers to an entirely remodelled European Union body. In doing so, it sheds light on this body, as fundamentally changed bythe Council, which will undoubtedly have a greater impact on the European criminal justice system than the European Arrest Warrant ever did. Dr. Willem Geelhoed is Assistant Professor in criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Drs. Leendert H. Erkelens and Prof. Mr. Arjen W.H. Meij are both Visiting Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague in The Netherlands, while the latter is also Honorary Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. General Perspectives on the EPPO: From the Outside and the Inside

Chapter 2. Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO): Introductory Remarks

Chapter 3. EPPO – Developments under the Presidency of The Netherlands

Chapter 4. European Public Prosecutor’s Office - A View on the State of Play and Perspectives from the European Parliament

Part II. Scholarly Perspective on the EPPO: Constitutional, Regulatory and Institutional Issues

Chapter 5. The Establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office: Between “Better Regulation” and Subsidiarity Concerns

Chapter 6. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Human Rights

Chapter 7. A Blunt Weapon for the EPPO? The Long Story of the (Progressively Stifled) Directive on the Protection of the Union’s Financial Interests By Means of Criminal Law

Chapter 8. Ancillary Crimes and Ne Bis in Idem

Chapter 9. Towards an Inconsistent European Regime of Cross-Border Evidence: EPPO Investigationsand the European Investigation Order

Chapter 10. Forum Choice and Judicial Review Under the EPPO’s Legislative Framework

Chapter 11. Relations Between the EPPO and Eurojust – Still a Privileged Partnership?

Part III. Summa Summarum: Assessing EPPO’s Raison d’Ȇtre in the Light of the Debates

Annex 1. EPPO's Raison d’Ȇtre: The Challenge of the Insertion of an EU Body in Procedures Mainly Governed by National Law

Annex 2. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office: A Chronicle of a Failure Foreseen. Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-6265-216-3