The European Public Prosecutor's Office – where do we stand?

The newly established European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) took up its operational work on 1 June 2021. The Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 had been under negotiations from 2013 until 2017 and was eventually adopted as an instrument of enhanced cooperation. Following the entry into force of the EPPO Regulation, intense work had commenced on the EU level as well as in the participating Member States to prepare the practical set-up of operations. Since the EPPO's College was appointed in summer of 2020, it has enacted numerous College decisions, implementing the EPPO Regulation and specifying internal procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]