European Public Prosecutor

Legal Basis:

• Article 86 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Green Paper:

• Main document [459 KB]

Public Consultation:

• Comments and Contributions
• Public Hearing

Follow-up to the Green Paper:

• Open letter [106 KB] of the Director-General of OLAF and OLAF Supervisory Committee to the President of the Convention for the Future of Europe.
• Follow-up [285 KB] report on the Green Paper presented by the Commission

Commission Communication:

• Communication of 26 May 2011 On the protection of the financial interests of the European Unionby criminal law and by administrative investigationsAn integrated policy to safeguard taxpayers' money
• Commission Staff Working Paper accompanying the Communication

Commission Work Programme 2012:

• Roadmap of the Proposal on the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor's office (EPPO) (link not yet available)

Seminars:

• International seminar organised by the Spanish presidency
• Seminars organised by Eurojust

Member States activities:

• Study conducted by Conseil d'Etat, France (FR only)
• Report of the Assemblée Nationale, France(FR only)
• Useful links

Academic studies co-funded by the European Commission:

• Corpus juris [2 MB]
• Study on structures and perspectives for European criminal Justice, with detailed Country reports (link not yet available)
• Euroneeds study on evaluating the need for and the needs of a European Criminal Justice System
• Study on Criminal Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes Affecting the Financial Interests of the EU – the Member States' dimension
• Study on EU model rules of criminal investigation and prosecution for the procedure of the proposed European Public Prosecutor's Office 
• EU model rules of evidence and procedural safeguards for the procedure of the proposed European Public Prosecutor's Office 

These Corpus Juris articles were published in M. Delmas-Marty & J.A.E. Vervaele (ed.), The Implementation of the Corpus Juris in the Member States, vol. 1, Intersentia, Antwerp-Oxford 2000