Actual Questions of the Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interest of the European Union
Actual Questions of the Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interest of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: It is a primary interest of the European Union to combat against crimes affecting its financial interests, since – according to some estimation – the overall damage caused by these criminal offences can reach 10-20 % of the EU’s budget. Based on the reinforced legislative competences of the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU legislator adopted two important legal acts in 2017: a Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (PIF Directive) and a Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO Regulation). This paper intends to present some actual and problematic points of the new regulatory framework of the criminal law protection of the financial interests of the European Union. In connection with this the paper primarily aims to answer the question whether the PIF Directive and the EPPO Regulation provide a unified protection to the financial interests of the European Union.

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