OCHRONA INTERESÓW FINANSOWYCH UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ – KILKA UWAG ZWIĄZANYCH Z PLANAMI UTWORZENIA PROKURATURY EUROPEJSKIEJ
PROTECTION OF THE FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – SOME REMARKS CONCERNING THE IDEA OF ESTABLISHING A EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

Summary/Abstract: The Lisbon Treaty has considerably reinforced available tools to protect the European Union financial interests. One of them is a possibility of establishing a European Public Prosecutor’s Office. This organ shall be responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to judgment the perpetrators of, and accomplices in, offences against the EU financial interests. There is also an option to extend the powers of the aforementioned organ to include serious crimes having crossborder dimension. In order to better understand the role that could be played by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, it is useful to analyze some earlier proposals in this regard. At the time of writing this article, one need to understand that the institutional architecture of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the ways of performing its tasks are still under discussion.

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