Czech companies and individual start legal action against European Public Prosecutor – EU Law Live

Internal Market – Justice & Litigation

December 9, 2024

On 1 October 2024, Research Investments s.r.o., Areál Zákolany s.r.o., and Simon Cihelník filed a lawsuit against the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) at the General Court of the European Union. The applicants seek the annulment of three legal acts issued by the EPPO in August 2024. They argue these acts were issued in violation of EU law during the investigation and prosecution stages: Research Investments and Others v European Public Prosecutor’s Office (Case T-509/24).

The applicants claim the EPPO exceeded its competence as defined by Article 25(3)(a) of Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939. According to the applicants, the EPPO should not have exercised its competence because both sub-conditions of Article 25(3)(a) wer

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