Combating Community fraud: criminal-law protection of the financial interests, the European Prosecutor. Green Paper

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Diemut THEATO (EPP-ED, Germany) on the Commission's Green Paper. (Please refer to the document dated 18/02/03.) Parliament stated that it supported the principle behind the establishment of an European Public Prosecutor and greater cooperation between national judicial authorities, but insisted that there are a number of substantive issues that have to be regulated in part under secondary legislation. These include legal systems and practices, language and administrative practice, the consequences for national criminal law, the risk of double jeopardy and the overlapping of competences between national and European Prosecutors, the admissibility of evidence, and mutual recognition.�