Abstract
This chapter provides a short overview of the progress made in the negotiations on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office under the Netherlands Presidency of the EU during the first half of 2016.
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European Commission 2013.
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Council 2016.
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European Commission 2013, Article 29.
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Council of the European Union 2015.
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French acronym: Protection des Intérêts Financiers.
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European Parliament and Council 2016.
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Supra note 3.
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Indeed, the Maltese Presidency dealt also with the EPPO and concluded that there was a lack of unanimity meaning that it cannot be approved by the Council of the EU. Malta EU 2017.
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On the basis of respectively the Protocols No. 21 and No. 22 to the Lisbon Treaty the UK and Ireland (No. 21) and Denmark (No. 22) are neither participating to the EPPO nor taking part in the voting procedure in the Council.
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Council of the European Union (2016) Proposal for a Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office - Partial general approach, Doc. 9799/16. Available at http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9799-2016-INIT/en/pdf. Accessed January 2017
European Commission (2013) Proposal for a Council regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, doc. COM (2013) 534 final. Available at http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12558-2013-INIT/en/pdf Accessed January 2017
European Parliament and Council (2016) Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA, OJ L 119/89, 4.5.2016
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Alink, M.J., Franssen, N.D. (2018). EPPO—Developments Under the Presidency of The Netherlands. In: Geelhoed, W., Erkelens, L., Meij, A. (eds) Shifting Perspectives on the European Public Prosecutor's Office. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-216-3_3
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