In an period during which the EU's effect in legal legislations concerns has accelerated quickly, recognition has lately grew to become to the prospective production of a ecu Public Prosecutor's workplace. This quantity paintings offers the result of a learn conducted by way of a gaggle of eu legal legislation specialists in 2010-2012, with the monetary help of the european fee, whose goals have been to check intimately present public prosecution structures within the Member States and to scrutinise proposals for a brand new ecu workplace.

Volume 1 starts off with thorough descriptions of 20 diverse nationwide felony platforms of research and prosecution, addressing more than a few evidential and procedural safeguards. those will function some extent of reference for all destiny examine on public prosecutors. quantity 1 additionally encompasses a sequence of cross-cutting reviews of the main concerns that would tell debates in regards to the production of a eu Public Prosecutor's workplace, together with stories of vertical cooperation in administrative investigations in subsidy and festival situations, the accession of the ecu to the ECHR, judicial regulate in cooperation in legal issues, mutual acceptance and decentralised enforcement of eu festival legislations.

Volume 2 (which should be released in 2013) provides a draft set of version ideas for the method of the ecu Public Prosecutor's place of work and maintains with a suite of comparative reviews of the nationwide criminal structures that hide the collection of facts, seizure of resources, arrests, monitoring and tracing, prosecution measures, procedural safeguards, the presumption of innocence and the precise to silence, entry to the dossier and sufferer reconciliation. quantity 2 concludes with the ultimate document, written by way of Professor Ligeti, summarising the findings of the crowd and reporting at the clients for the proposed reform.