THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE – FROM MYTH TO REALITY

Abstract

According to the EPPO Regulation, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is an indivisible Union body operating as one single Office with a decentralised structure.The EPPO has legal personality.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is required to respect the principles of rule of law and proportionality in all its activities. The EPPO has to conduct its investigations in an impartial manner. The EPPO is independent, it can neither seek nor take instructions from any person, any Member State of the European Union or any institution, body, office or agency of the Union. The EPPO is accountable to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Commission for its general activities, and is required to issue annual reports to the European Parliament and to national parliaments, as well as to the Council and to the Commission.