Editor’s Note
| Published date | 01 December 2017 |
| Date | 01 December 2017 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/2032284417745216 |
| Subject Matter | Updates |
Updates
Editor’s Note: Preparing
the environment for the EPPO
On 12 October 2017, the regulation establishing the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) was
adopted by those member states which are part of the EPPO enhanced cooperation. The EPPO will be
in charge of investigating, prosecuting and bringing to justice the perpetrators of offences against the
Union’s financial interests. It will bring together European and national law-enforcement efforts to
counter EU fraud.
—European Council Press Release
To mark this occasion, the NJECL is privileged to publish the proposal for guidelines and a
model training curriculum for judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers in the PIF sector designed
to facilitate the operation of the EPPO by. This work is the product of a project run by the Centro di
Diritto Penale Europeo of Catania, which was co-financed by OLAF in the framework of the
Hercule III Programme 2014-2020.
We publish
– a foreword by Professor Rosaria Sicurella (the Project Leader),
– the guidelines, and
– training modules.
The documents depart from the usual format of NJECL content. Apart from the foreword, they
are more in the form of an instruction manual than in the form of an academic article or a
practitioner’s comment on legal developments. This is all more reason to publish them. In fact,
to borrow a phrase, these are ‘living documents’ because, being designed to train and assist
practitioners, their working life is ahead of them and they will come to the attention of practitioners
through different channels and possibly in amended form.
We publish them here, not to claim a scoop, but because they serve a practical need by training
practitioners and an academic need by explaining the jurisprudential underpinning of the EPPO
project.
So, they meet the twin objectives if the NJECL, and by publishing the documents, the NJECL
contributes to a major development in EU law in general and EU criminal law in particular.
Scott Crosby
Advocate, Brussels
New Journal of European Criminal Law
2017, Vol. 8(4) 496
ªThe Author(s) 2017
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