TY - BOOK ID - 78145600 TI - OLAF at the crossroads : action against EU fraud AU - Stefanou, Constantin AU - White, Simone AU - Xanthaki, Helen PY - 2011 VL - 7 SN - 184731855X 1472565649 1283395789 9786613395788 1847316670 9781847316677 9781283395786 9781847318558 9781841137919 184113791X 9781472565648 PB - Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing DB - UniCat KW - European Commission. KW - OLAF (European Commission. Office européen de lutte anti-fraude) KW - Office européen de lutte anti-fraude KW - Office européen de la lutte anti-fraude KW - European Anti-Fraud Office KW - Finance, Public KW - Fraud KW - Cameralistics KW - Public finance KW - Public finances KW - Currency question KW - Auditing KW - E-books KW - Auditing. KW - European Union countries KW - Appropriations and expenditures KW - State supervision. KW - EU countries KW - Euroland KW - Europe KW - State supervision KW - Finance, Public - European Union countries - Auditing KW - Fraud - European Union countries KW - European Union countries - Appropriations and expenditures - State supervision UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145600 AB - The authors offer many insights into the regulatory, operational and institutional opportunities and challenges for OLAF, the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office. Since OLAF was set up in 1999, significant changes in its functional environment have taken place including in EU criminal law and especially in mutual assistance and substantive criminal law; the reconstruction of Eurojust and Europol through recent Regulations and Memoranda of Cooperation; and the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.The authors advance the view that OLAF's current legal framework must address these issues adequately.The approach they take is multi-disciplinary. OLAF is examined here through the prisms of EU politics and national, European and (to some extent) comparative law, focusing not only on the identification of current problems in regulation and procedure but also on its positioning within the context of European integration. Operational issues are then extensively discussed, making this a book for practitioners as well as policy makers and academics.The book addresses the theoretical and practical aspects of anti-fraud actions within both criminal and civil aspects of public law. Although OLAF works within an incomplete EU legal framework and with varying cooperation by national authorities, its staff have devised mechanisms that address some of these issues. Nevertheless, rules covering procedural and operational issues will need to be safeguarded within future legislation ER -