Vervaele, John --- "Judicial and political accountability for criminal investigations and prosecutions by a European Public Prosecutor’s Office in the EU: the dissymmetry of shared enforcement" [2017] ELECD 1522; in Scholten, Miroslava; Luchtman, Michiel (eds), "Law Enforcement by EU Authorities" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 247

Book Title: Law Enforcement by EU Authorities

Editor(s): Scholten, Miroslava; Luchtman, Michiel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786434623

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Judicial and political accountability for criminal investigations and prosecutions by a European Public Prosecutor’s Office in the EU: the dissymmetry of shared enforcement

Author(s): Vervaele, John

Number of pages: 25

Abstract/Description:

The overall picture of the institutional design shows that the EPPO will be fully dependent on the delegates in the national legal regimes for conducting the investigation. Because of the transnational character of many important fraud cases this means that the EPPO will have to apply EU law and different settings of national provisions. This shared enforcement with the delegates under national law this will result in a complex patchwork in which the legal consequences of its actions and the applicable procedural safeguards for suspects, victims and third parties will be quite unclear.