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The Council today (14 October) agreed to the appointment of Laura Codruţa Kövesi (pictured) to be the first European chief prosecutor. The appointment must now also be confirmed by the European Parliament, which will be a formality as the European Parliament has already let the Council know that Kövesi is their preferred candidate. 

Kövesi, a Romanian national, is currently prosecutor within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania. She held various positions as prosecutor during her career in Romania.

The European chief prosecutor will organize the work of the EPPO and represent the Office in contacts with EU institutions, member states and third countries. She will be assisted by two deputies and will chair the college of prosecutors, which will be in charge of defining the strategy and internal rules and ensuring coherence across and within cases.

"The priority of the Council is that the EPPO is up and running by November 2020. In this respect, it was now becoming urgent to appoint the European chief prosecutor. Ms Kövesi, as the first ever incumbent of this post, will have the task of setting up the EPPO from scratch. Her job over the seven years of her mandate will in particular consist in building the administrative and operational structure of the office and establishing good working relations with national judicial authorities. The Council will continue to monitor the setting up of the office to ensure we have an efficient and effective EPPO that becomes the cornerstone of our fight against fraud and corruption to the EU finances," said Anna-Maja Henriksson, justice minister from the Finnish presidency of the Council.

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