Towards the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) Institutional and Practical Challenges

	City: Trier Date: 17-18 January 2013 Fee: € 100 Objective The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is envisaged in Article 86 TFEU. The EPPO would be responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to justice those who damage assets managed by or on behalf of the EU. The European Council may adopt a decision extending the powers of the EPPO to include serious crime having a cross-border dimension. From 7 March to 6 June 2012, the European Commission carried out a public consultation on: ‘Protecting the European Union's Financial Interests and Enhancing Prosecutions’. The consultation provided judicial professionals (such as judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials) with the opportunity to present their views, helping the Commission to develop its proposal. This conference will look at the institutional and practical challenges of establishing the EPPO. Issues of substantive and procedural criminal law will be examined together with the legal status and the possible internal organisation of the new Office. The conference will also debate the future relations of the EPPO with the other relevant EU bodies involved in cooperation in criminal matters such as Eurojust, OLAF and Europol. Key topics National experiences of prosecuting offences affecting the EU's financial interests and key challenges for prosecutions Analysis of the legal framework necessary to ensure more effective criminal enforcement of the protection of the EU's financial interests General rules applicable to the EPPO, conditions governing the performance of its functions and rules of procedure applicable to its activities (including issues of judicial review and democratic control) Practical and organisational conditions for setting up the EPPO.
	Organiser: Laviero Buono, Academy of European Law This event has been co-financed by the European Commission (OLAF) under the Hercule II Programme Languages: English, French, German (simultaneous interpretation) Speakers: Yves Bot, Advocate General, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg; Michèle Coninsx, President of Eurojust, The Hague; Peter Csonka, Adviser, DG Justice, European Commission, Brussels; Zlata Durdevic, Professor of Criminal Procedural Law, University of Zagreb; David J Dickson, Solicitor Advocate, Crown Office, EJN Contact Point, Edinburgh; Joachim Eckert, Presiding Judge, District Court, Munich; Jorge Espina, Deputy Prosecutor, International Cooperation Unit, Office of the General Prosecutor, Madrid; Anca Jurma, Chief Prosecutor, Service for International Cooperation, National Anticorruption Directorate, Bucharest; Giovanni Kessler, Director General, OLAF, European Commission, Brussels; Lothar Kuhl, Head of Unit D.4, Corporate Planning and Policy, OLAF, European Commission, Brussels; Françoise Le Bail, Director General, DG Justice, European Commission, Brussels ; Katalin Ligeti, Professor of European and International Criminal Law, University of Luxembourg; Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Chair of the LIBE Committee, European Parliament, Brussels; Holger Matt, Chairman of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), Frankfurt; Hans Nilsson, Head of Unit, Fundamental Rights and Criminal Justice, General Secretariat, Council of the European Union, Brussels; Robert Sheehan, National Member for Ireland, Eurojust, The Hague; Filippo Spiezia, Deputy National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Rome; John Vervaele, Professor of Economic and European Criminal Law, University of Utrecht; Robert Wainwright, Director, Europol, The Hague; Anne Weyembergh, Professor, Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels Event no.: 313DT21 Further information and online registration