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Welcome to the website of the ANR EUBUPRO programme (23-CE53-0004), led by the Pr. Dr. Loïc Levoyer at the University of Poitiers. Explore the latest updates on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests and key issues related to the European budget, its stakeholders, mechanisms, and instruments
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The European Union budget 2024
EUBUPRO aims to analyse the relevance of the model for protecting the financial interests and budget of the European Union, particularly in light of the recent operationalisation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the challenges to the rule of law by certain Member States. The project focuses on the role of both European and national institutions involved in protecting the EU’s financial interests. It examines the legal instruments used to control the use of European funds. It also evaluates the impact of the innovative rule of budgetary conditionality in relation to the objective of protecting European financial interests and ensuring the respect of the rule of law principles within the EU. By reviewing all breaches, frauds, and offences related to the EU budget, the project analyses the judicial, administrative, and budgetary implications of protecting the EU’s financial interests.
Based on public policies funded by the European budget, the EUBUPRO project thus questions the EU’s governance and operational model, enhancing the understanding of legal frameworks
ANR EUBUPRO Conference - 26 November 2026
Conference "The Architecture for the Protection of the European Union's Financial Interests" at the University of Poitiers
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The protection of the European Union’s financial interests (PIFUE) forms a framework combining a common regulatory basis, obligations incumbent upon Member States and a set of specialised institutions. This framework aims to ensure consistent and effective protection of the EU budget, regardless of the Member State in which fraud or irregularities occur. The ‘financial interests of the Union’ thus cover all budget revenue and expenditure, including the Structural Funds and exceptional instruments such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, meaning that the prevention and prosecution of fraud, corruption and irregularities have become a key issue of legitimacy and sound management.
At the institutional level, the architecture of the EU Anti-Fraud Policy brings together national supervisory and prosecuting authorities, the Commission’s services, OLAF (which is responsible for administrative investigations) and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (which has jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions relating to serious breaches of the EU budget), as well as the European Court of Auditors and the mechanisms for auditing and budgetary conditionality. The use of the term ‘architecture’ thus serves to emphasise that the issue at stake is not merely the existence of rules, but their coherent interconnection and their practical effectiveness.
It is against this backdrop that the conference ‘The Architecture of the Protection of the European Union’s Financial Interests’, organised as part of the ANR EUBUPRO programme (23-CE53-0004) on 26 November 2026 at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Poitiers, under the academic supervision of Professors Loïc Levoyer (Professor of Public Law at the University of Poitiers) and Pierre-Yves Monjal (Professor of Public Law at the University of Tours, Jean Monnet European Chair). Three round-table discussions will take place in succession, bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss three key aspects of the PIFUE: its structure, its scope and its criminal law dimension.
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New publication by Prof. Dr. Pierre-Yves Monjal in the Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne
New publication by the Prof. Dr. Pierre-Yves Monjal in the Revue du Droit de l'Union européenne, within the framework of the EUBUPRO Programme :"The protection of the European Union's financial interests "PIF): Europe's Thirteenth Herculean Task of the Financial Union revealed by its protection regime... Comment, CJUE, 24 July 2023, Lin, Case C-107/23 PPU, ECLI:EU:C:2023:606"
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