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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union Volume 1: A Comparative Analysis by Edited by Professor Katalin Ligeti
In an era of increased EU influence in criminal law matters attention has recently turned to the creation of a European Public Prosecutors office. This two volume work presents the results of a study by a group of European criminal law experts who were invited to examine current public prosecution systems in the Member States and to propose new rules for a European office. Volume 1 begins with descriptions of 24 national prosecutorial systems. It continues with a series of cross-cutting studies of the issues which will inform debates about the creation of a European Public Prosecutor´s Office including studies of vertical cooperation the accession of the EU to the ECHR judicial control in criminal matters mutual recognition and decentralised enforcement of European competition law. Volume 2 presents draft model rules for the European Public Prosecutors Office together with comparative studies of the national prosecutorial systems covering the gathering of evidence seizure of assets arrests prosecution measures procedural safeguards the presumption of innocence and the right to silence access to the file and victim reconciliation. Volume 2 concludes with the final report by Professor Ligeti which summarises the findings of the group and explains the drafting of the model rules.