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Vertical Cooperation

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The chapter gives an outline of the centralised bodies of the European Union for administrative, police and judicial cooperation. The first section is dedicated to the administrative and police cooperation bodies. Firstly, it highlights the structure, functioning and powers of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and its relationship with national judicial authorities. Then it describes the functioning and the operational scope of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), established under Regulation 2016/794/EU, with particular regard to the system for collecting, storing and transmitting data. The last part of the first section addresses the issue of the cooperation between the European agencies and the International Police Organization (Interpol). The second section of the chapter is conversely focused on European judicial cooperation, which is managed at a centralised level by the European agency Eurojust, whose task is to coordinate national judicial authorities and whose powers have been enhanced by Decision 2009/426/JHA and especially by the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 85 TFEU). Finally, the chapter also includes a brief overview of the proposal of establishing a European Public Prosecutor’s Office and its further developments.

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De Amicis, G., Kostoris, R.E. (2018). Vertical Cooperation. In: Kostoris, R. (eds) Handbook of European Criminal Procedure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72462-1_5

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