EU Fraud: institutional and legal competence

Quirke, Brendan (2009) EU Fraud: institutional and legal competence. Crime, Law and Social Change, 51 (5). pp. 531-547. ISSN 0925-4994

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Abstract

This paper will focus on frauds committed against the budget of the European Union. It will consider the role of OLAF (the European Fraud Prevention Office) which is the lead agency in the fight against fraud. It will consider its powers and its capacity to co-ordinate the activities of anti-fraud agencies in twenty seven member states and the constraints which prevent it from operating in a more effective manner. The paper will also consider the role of other transnational bodies such as Eurojust and Europol and will seek to highlight the degree of fragmentation which exists with a multiplicity of actors involved in policing fraud, a fragmented legal approach and the difficulties this presents in policing sophisticated transnational frauds. The effect of EU expansion on this situation will also be examined and the EU anti-fraud efforts of the Czech Republic will be considered in some detail. The paper concludes that the legal system and the institutions are not yet in place to enable such frauds to be adequately policed.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	L900 Others in Social studies
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2013 11:08
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2021 15:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/13415

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