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“What Lessons can the EU learn from Swiss and German models?”
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor General in Federal States were the topic of a workshop and a conference that was co-organized by the Institute for European Global Studies. The events took place from 25 to 26 September 2014 at the University of Basel.
In July 2013, the European Commission launched a proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). Even though a majority of Member States supports the idea of establishing a European Public Prosecutor, a number of issues remain unresolved and require further consideration. In this regard, the EU legislator might draw upon the experiences of federal states, such as Switzerland and Germany, both of which have a general prosecutor at the federal level and prosecutors at the cantonal or state level. The conference provided a forum to discuss the challenges that a federal (or supranational) prosecutor will face in a system with a strong tradition of law enforcement at the local level, as well as the institutional and organizational settings, cooperation mechanisms and case allocation frameworks of federal and supranational criminal justice systems.
The event consisted of a workshop and a conference. The workshop took place on 25 September 2014, from 4pm to 6.30pm and focused on the challenges for federal prosecution services facing local enforcement. The discussions concerned the goals that stakeholders wish to achieve as well as perspectives of local prosecution services. The conference took place on 26 September 2014 and was concerned with the topic “European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the prosecutor general in federal states”. Among other subjects, the talks discussed benefits and risks of uniform rules on criminal proceedings, as well as the question what lessons the EU can learn from federal states with general prosecutors.
The event was organized by the Institute for European Global Studies and the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel, as well as the Department of Law at the University of Bonn. It was co-funded by the European Commission (OLAF) under the Hercule-II-Program.
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