Abstract
The establishment of The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) has been the most ambitious step in the field of Europeanisation of criminal law so far. At EU level, for the first time ever, an institution with the transnational power to investigate and prosecute cross-border crime across Member States has been set up.
EPPO and its prosecutors will focus on crimes affecting or threatening the EU's financial interests. Although agreement on the establishment of the EPPO was reached in 2017, the Office is still in its infancy and is due to start fulfilling its tasks at the end of 2020.
This is also the reason why this is a very current and dynamic topic. However, when we look closer at legal framework of the EPPO, we discover many questions and ambiguities, for example an ongoing fragmentation of procedural and substantive criminal law within the EU.
So what are the goals of EPPO? What is its material competence and powers? And why are there so many ambiguities and questions associated with its future functioning?