Legal and Operational Training services in support of investigations and prosecutions of the EPPO

Background

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (the EPPO) is an independent European prosecution service responsible for carrying out criminal investigations and prosecutions into crimes affecting the Union budget, including fraud, corruption, money laundering and serious cross-border VAT fraud. The Regulation establishing the EPPO under enhanced cooperation entered into force on 20 November 2017.
The EPPO operates on a central level, where European Prosecutors supervise the investigations and prosecutions in each participating EU country, and a decentralized level, where European Delegated Prosecutors carry out investigations and prosecutions in each country.
Given the novelty of the European prosecution body, the diverse background of the staff, the experience gathered during the first three years of operations and the evergrowing amount of relevant legislation and jurisprudence, the EPPO needs to acquire training services, in order to ensure a common understanding of the legal principles lying at its foundation and a common approach towards the investigation of the criminal offences under its competence. EPPO’s objective of increasing the level of protection of the Union’s financial interests  against criminal offences requires the dissemination of information related to all the relevant legislation and jurisprudence, as well as the latest investigative techniques and related best practices.

Provision of specialized training services in the field of work of the EPPO

In light of the above, specialised training is offered to the mentioned target groups with the following objectives:

• Ensuring the knowledge and know-how of the legal and operational skills specific for the investigation of the offences falling under the competence of the EPPO.
• Improving the knowledge of the relevant case law.
  
• Ensuring exchanges between participants on the best practices and the problems that may arise in the interpretation of specific provisions in the light of hypothetical and actual cases.
  
• Fostering the understanding of the legal systems of the participating Member States
  

Using this website

Participants to the specialised training services may find detailed information on the topics, dates and locations of the planned training activities including the registration links, training materials, presentations and podcasts, and legal library on this page.