Ochrona unijnych finansów – czyli ciąg dalszy batalii o urząd Prokuratora Europejskiego
The protection of European Union financial interests – the continuation of the struggle for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the issue of protection of European financial interests. The author focuses on the instruments which functioned in the past, across the present ones, finishing on those which are going to be established. The main objective of the author is to analyze the work on the creation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. It is worth mentioning that this work has been started a long time ago and that one of the deadlines for the implementation of the new EU Institution was January 2015. Despite the good direction that will guarantee greater security for the EU financial system, the concept of the EU Public Prosecutor’s Office has not yet materialized. In the first part of the article the author presents current forms of counteracting abuses and irregularities against the EU budget. On this occasion the role of such bodies as UCLAF and OLAF were discussed, as well as the formal and legal basis for their functioning. The practical aspects and problems with which the two entities were encountered in the current activity were also mentioned. The author quotes statistical data which illustrates the activity of both institutions and the scale of financial losses harming the EU budget. In the second part, the author describes in details the vision of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. The foundation for creating a new institution is Art. 86 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. According to this article, the Public Prosecutor’s office is to be built on the basis of Eurojust structures and is about to draw the UCLAFs and OLAFs experiences. In this part, authors analizes the draft of European regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. It characterizes the planned, future structure, competences and functioning aspects of this new institution. The last part is devoted to a number of dobts and concerns about the process of creating the EPPO. There are many discrepancies between Members States according to the form of the new institution.

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