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7 - Protection of the Financial Interests of the EU (Art. 325 TFEU)

from Part III - European Substantive Criminal Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
Stefanie Bock
Edited by
Kai Ambos  and
Peter Rackow
Kai Ambos
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Peter Rackow
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

Art. 325 TFEU aims to establish an effective and standardised protection of the European Union’s financial interests across all Member States, and in all of the EU’s institutions and bodies. This regime is underpinned by two key principles: assimilation and minimum protection. They require the Member States to take the same measures to counter fraud affecting the financial interests of the EU as they take to counter fraud affecting their own financial interests and to prevent and combat EU-fraud and other financial misconduct with effective, proportionate and dissuasive measures. National provision that is incompatible with this so-called ‘minimum trias’ is neutralized and rendered inapplicable. Moreover, the EU is empowered to adopt the necessary measures for the prevention of and fight against EU fraud. Arguably, this includes the right to enact legislation in the area of criminal law, to harmonise the respective national criminal laws of the Member States, and even to introduce directly applicable European criminal provisions. And yet, despite these sweeping powers, the EU has thus far proven reluctant to use them. Instead, it has generally opted for a restrictive interpretation of its anti-fraud competencies.

Keywords

financial interests of the European UnionPIF-RegimePIF-Directivefraudassimilationminimum triasharmonizationsupranational criminal law
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The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law , pp. 157 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Asp, P., ‘(More Than) Two Decades Later – Does the Principle of Assimilation Still Have a Role to Play within European Criminal Law?’, in Freund, G. et al. (eds.), Grundlagen und Dogmatik des gesamten Strafrechtssystems – Festschrift für Wolfang Frisch zum 70. Geburtstag, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013, pp. 1389–1401.Google Scholar
Bock, S., ‘Der Schutz der finanziellen Interessen der Union. Überlegungen zur Betrugsbekämpfungsrichtlinie 2017/1371’, in Ambos, K. and Bock, S. (eds.), Aktuelle und grundsätzliche Fragen des Wirtschaftsstrafrechts / Questions actuelle et fondamentales du droit pénal des affaires, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2019, pp. 155–180.Google Scholar
Covolo, V., L’émergence d’un droit pénal en réseau. Analyse critique du système européen de lutte antifraude, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015.Google Scholar
Fromm, I. E., Der strafrechtliche Schutz der Finanzinteressen der EG – Die Frage der Einführung einer supranationalen Strafrechtskompetenz durch Artikel 280 IV EGV, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2004.Google Scholar
Gröblinghoff, S., Die Verpflichtung des deutschen Strafgesetzgebers zum Schutz der Interessen der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, Heidelberg: C.F. Müller, 1996.Google Scholar
Kaiafa-Gbandi, M., ‘The Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on the Fight against Fraud to the Union’s Financial Interests by Means of Criminal Law (COM (2012) 363 final) – An Assessment Based on the Manifesto for a European Criminal Policy’, (2012) 2 EuCLR, 319–337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pabsch, W. C., Der strafrechtliche Schutz der überstaatlichen Hoheitsgewalt, Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, 1965.Google Scholar
Sunderland, J. et al., Study on the Legal Framework for the Protection EU Financial Interests by Criminal Law, 4 Mai 2012.Google Scholar
Weißer, B., ‘Strafgesetzgebung durch die Europäische Union: Nicht nur ein Recht, sondern auch eine Pflicht?’, (2014) 161 GA, 433–452.Google Scholar

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