Procuradoria Europeia: A implementação de um Ministério Público Europeu para o combate aos crimes transnacionais praticados contra os interesses financeiros da União Europeia / European public prosecution: the implementation of a european public prosecution office to combat transnational crime against European Union’s financial interests

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe the extensive path taken by the European Union to face the adversities arising from globalization, among them the growing fixation in its space of organized crime that puts financial interests at risk. Among the policies adopted by the Union is the fight against transnational crime, which aims to maintain and improve the area of freedom, security and justice. In addition to a basic rule that defined criminal offenses and the respective sanctions, it was imperative to establish an entity with the capacity to bring criminal actions arising from these illicit acts, and that would operate throughout the Union. Thus, this writing analyzes the grounds for the implementation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office even before the Treaty of Lisbon, passing through the proposed normative text and inserted in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to, in the end, be approved, in 2017, by the Justice and Home Affairs Council (EU Regulation 2017/1939). The functions and basic principles of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, its main functions and form of exercise will be analyzed, as well as the structure and organization of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, until the effective start of its activities on June 1, 2021.