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Protecting the EU's financial interests together: cooperation between EU actors

par Briere, Chloe
Editeur scientifique Sammut, Ivan;Agranovska, Jelena
Référence Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law, Theory and practice, Eleven International Publishing, Ed. 1, page (340)
Publication Publié, 2019

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Protecting its financial interests has been a long standing concern for the European Union, especially due to a certain gap in their protection by national authorities. The establishment of specialised European actors participates to the desire to reinforce their protection, and the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office, competent to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment crimes affecting the EU’s financial interests, shall give it a new impetus. It will notably stimulate inter-agency cooperation between the relevant European actors, especially between the EU Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the EU Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) and the EPPO. The present chapter offers a legal appraisal of the instruments applicable to these actors, which have been recently either adopted, amended or subject to legislative proposals, with a focus on the provisions regulating their mutual cooperation. It pinpoints the impact their different histories may have on such cooperation, as well as the necessity to identify a common field of action. The chapter then examines the new provisions regulating their cooperation to determine whether they shall offer a solid basis for future inter-agency cooperation in PIF matters, and concludes that although they do provide improvements, their implementation will have to be closely followed.