Home › Justice & Home Affairs › EPPO Regulation

EPPO Regulation

Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
32017R1939 · official text on EUR-Lex

Articles

Chapter I SUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS

• Article 1 — Subject matter
• Article 2 — Definitions

Chapter II ESTABLISHMENT, TASKS AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE EPPO

• Article 3 — Establishment
• Article 4 — Tasks
• Article 5 — Basic principles of the activities
• Article 6 — Independence and accountability
• Article 7 — Reporting

Chapter III STATUS, STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION OF THE EPPO

Section 1 Status and structure of the EPPO

• Article 8 — Structure of the EPPO
• Article 9 — The College
• Article 10 — The Permanent Chambers
• Article 11 — The European Chief Prosecutor and the Deputy European Chief Prosecutors
• Article 12 — The European Prosecutors
• Article 13 — The European Delegated Prosecutors

Section 2 Appointment and dismissal of the members of the EPPO

• Article 14 — Appointment and dismissal of the European Chief Prosecutor
• Article 15 — Appointment and dismissal of the Deputy European Chief Prosecutors
• Article 16 — Appointment and dismissal of the European Prosecutors
• Article 17 — Appointment and dismissal of the European Delegated Prosecutors
• Article 18 — Status of the Administrative Director
• Article 19 — Responsibilities of the Administrative Director
• Article 20 — Provisional administrative arrangements of the EPPO

Section 3 Internal rules of procedure of the EPPO

• Article 21 — Internal rules of procedure of the EPPO

Chapter IV COMPETENCE AND EXERCISE OF THE COMPETENCE OF THE EPPO

Section 1 Competence of the EPPO

• Article 22 — Material competence of the EPPO
• Article 23 — Territorial and personal competence of the EPPO

Section 2 Exercise of the competence of the EPPO

• Article 24 — Reporting, registration and verification of information
• Article 25 — Exercise of the competence of the EPPO

Chapter V RULES OF PROCEDURE ON INVESTIGATIONS, INVESTIGATION MEASURES, PROSECUTION AND ALTERNATIVES TO PROSECUTION

Section 1 Rules on investigations

• Article 26 — Initiation of investigations and allocation of competences within the EPPO
• Article 27 — Right of evocation
• Article 28 — Conducting the investigation
• Article 29 — Lifting privileges or immunities

Section 2 Rules on investigation measures and other measures

• Article 30 — Investigation measures and other measures
• Article 31 — Cross-border investigations
• Article 32 — Enforcement of assigned measures
• Article 33 — Pre-trial arrest and cross-border surrender

Section 3 Rules on prosecution

• Article 34 — Referrals and transfers of proceedings to the national authorities
• Article 35 — Termination of the investigation
• Article 36 — Prosecution before national Courts
• Article 37 — Evidence
• Article 38 — Disposition of confiscated assets

Section 4 Rules on alternatives to prosecution

• Article 39 — Dismissal of the case

Section 5 Rules on simplified procedures

• Article 40 — Simplified prosecution procedures

Chapter VI PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS

• Article 41 — Scope of the rights of the suspects and accused persons
• Article 42 — Judicial review

Chapter VII PROCESSING OF INFORMATION

• Article 43 — Access to information by the EPPO
• Article 44 — Case management system
• Article 45 — Case files of the EPPO
• Article 46 — Access to the case management system

Chapter VIII DATA PROTECTION

• Article 47 — Principles relating to processing of personal data
• Article 48 — Administrative personal data
• Article 49 — Processing of operational personal data
• Article 50 — Time limits for the storage of operational personal data
• Article 51 — Distinction between different categories of data subject
• Article 52 — Distinction between operational personal data and verification of quality of personal data
• Article 53 — Specific processing conditions
• Article 54 — Transmission of operational personal data to institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union
• Article 55 — Processing of special categories of operational personal data
• Article 56 — Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
• Article 57 — Communication and modalities for exercising the rights of the data subject
• Article 58 — Information to be made available or given to the data subject
• Article 59 — Right of access by the data subject
• Article 60 — Limitations to the right of access
• Article 61 — Right to rectification or erasure of operational personal data and restriction of processing
• Article 62 — Exercise of rights by the data subject and verification by the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 63 — Obligations of the EPPO
• Article 64 — Joint controllers
• Article 65 — Processor
• Article 66 — Processing under the authority of the controller or processor
• Article 67 — Data protection by design and by default
• Article 68 — Records of categories of processing activities
• Article 69 — Logging in respect of automated processing
• Article 70 — Cooperation with the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 71 — Data protection impact assessment
• Article 72 — Prior consultation of the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 73 — Security of processing of operational personal data
• Article 74 — Notification of a personal data breach to the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 75 — Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject
• Article 76 — Authorised access to operational personal data within the EPPO
• Article 77 — Designation of the Data Protection Officer
• Article 78 — Position of the Data Protection Officer
• Article 79 — Tasks of the data protection officer
• Article 80 — General principles for transfers of operational personal data
• Article 81 — Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision
• Article 82 — Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards
• Article 83 — Derogations for specific situations
• Article 84 — Transfers of operational personal data to recipients established in third countries
• Article 85 — Supervision by the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 86 — Professional secrecy of the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 87 — Cooperation between the European Data Protection Supervisor and national supervisory authorities
• Article 88 — Right to lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 89 — Right to judicial review against the European Data Protection Supervisor

Chapter IX FINANCIAL AND STAFF PROVISIONS

Section 1 Financial provisions

• Article 90 — Financial actors
• Article 91 — Budget
• Article 92 — Establishment of the budget
• Article 93 — Implementation of the budget
• Article 94 — Presentation of accounts and discharge
• Article 95 — Financial rules

Section 2 Staff provisions

• Article 96 — General provisions
• Article 97 — Temporary agents and contract agents
• Article 98 — Seconded national experts and other staff

Chapter X PROVISIONS ON THE RELATIONS OF THE EPPO WITH ITS PARTNERS

• Article 99 — Common provisions
• Article 100 — Relations with Eurojust
• Article 101 — Relations with OLAF
• Article 102 — Relations with Europol
• Article 103 — Relations with other institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union
• Article 104 — Relations with third countries and international organisations
• Article 105 — Relations with Member States of the European Union which do not participate in enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the EPPO

Chapter XI GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Article 106 — Legal status and operating conditions
• Article 107 — Language arrangements
• Article 108 — Confidentiality and professional secrecy
• Article 109 — Transparency
• Article 110 — OLAF and the Court of Auditors
• Article 111 — Rules on the protection of sensitive non-classified and classified information
• Article 112 — Administrative inquiries
• Article 113 — General regime of liability
• Article 114 — Implementing rules and programme documents
• Article 115 — Exercise of the delegation
• Article 116 — Urgency procedure
• Article 117 — Notifications
• Article 118 — Review of the rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the EPPO
• Article 119 — Review clause
• Article 120 — Entry into force