Today's business is a course to welcome Andrash Shuri, who is at the University of Vienna.

And Andres is a good friend of the faculties in sales.

He's been working with Professor John Spencer on a number of issues, but more particularly on the proposal for a European public prosecutor.

It's a real pleasure to welcome you back and to give today's lunchtime seminar.

I should say that the paper upon the top in the space will be coming out very soon in the issues that we are doing so it's

lot of the tabby here thank you very much Kenneth for the introduction and even more for

the kind invitation to give this talk today and I would like to welcome all of you as well

especially Professor John Spencer who I was attached to last year with regard to this topic

and who has a lot to do with European Public Prosecutor's Office with the original idea.

I would just say in one amendment to myself that I'm in the first place a criminal lawyer,

but with interest in EU law as well, which you have to have if you focus on a subject

like the European Public Prosecutor's Office. I also also know because I took part two days ago at the panel discussions

that the EPPO, the European Public Prosecutors Office,

is not the most burning issue possibly currently

in the relations of the UK and the EU.

Nevertheless, the larger picture where the EPPO is a part of

is a burning issue for several decades now in the European Union.

This is how to fight budgetary fraud.

It has several aspects, as I said, it poses questions on approximation of substantive law, of procedure law, on mutual recognition measures,

and one aspect of this is an institutional aspect, and this is the possible setting up of a prosecution service at European level to fight

fraud.

The outline of today's talk would be, as you can see, first of all I would like to talk a

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