Professional paper
Judicial Cooperation between the EPPO and Third Countries: Chances and Challenges
Nicholas Franssen
; Ministarstvo pravosuđa i sigurnosti Nizozemske
Abstract
The article deals with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’s (EPPO’s) specific role in the fight against EU fraud in relation to third countries, i.e. countries outside the EU. It contains an overview of the various legal avenues in the EPPO Regulation that the EPPO may explore for engaging in judicial cooperation with such third countries. It then describes the legal parameters that will mostly affect the application of these various modalities in practice. In its conclusion, the article assumes that it may well prove to be rather challenging for the EPPO to develop its external role and that it is likely to have to deal with a patchwork of forms of
judicial cooperation as a result, as this will depend on factors like the nature of the case and the third country involved. Equally, once the EPPO is up and running and in a position to start defining its external policy priorities it will need to identify the third countries most relevant to its operational activities, assess the possibilities for judicial cooperation with them and, if need be, propose solutions to Member States or the Commission, as the case may be, in order to address any legal voids encountered in the process.
Article first published in eucrim, iss. 3(2019), based on author's article published in Journal of European Criminal Law June 2019.
Keywords
EPPO; judicial cooperation; third countries; EU fraud
Hrčak ID:
244931
URI
Publication date:
15.10.2020.
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