European Public Prosecutor

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The European Public Prosecutor is a proposed post in the European Union. A provision to establish one was included in the European Constitution, which failed ratification, and the new Treaty of Lisbon, which is yet to be signed. It has been strongly backed by the current European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini as part of plans to strengthen the Eurojust agency. Frattini stated in August 2007 that he is "convinced that Europe will have its general prosecutor in the future" and suggested that the Commission is just waiting for the treaty to come into force (in 2009) in the hope that the position would be established within that year. He stated that a prosecutor "could prove useful" in areas "where important European interests are at stake", namely in dealing with financial crime, fraud and counterfeiting at European level.^[1]

There is debate in the UK about the establishment of such a role - many suggest that such a civil law office would be at odds with the principles of common law.

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