Our mandate
Established under Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, the EPPO is the first supranational prosecution body of the European Union. It has competence to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union, as provided for by the PIF Directive (Directive (EU) 2017/1371).
Structure
The EPPO operates as a single Office across the participating Member States. It has a central level in Luxembourg — composed of the European Chief Prosecutor, the College, the Permanent Chambers and the European Prosecutors — and a decentralised level of European Delegated Prosecutors located in the Member States.
Independence
The EPPO acts in the interest of the Union as a whole and neither seeks nor takes instructions from any person external to the Office, any Member State, or any institution, body, office or agency of the Union.
Participating Member States
22 EU Member States participate in the enhanced cooperation establishing the EPPO: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.