ECA – EU Law Enforcement

More than two millennia ago the Roman poet Juvenal posed the question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards themselves? Today, we pose this question, be it in a complete different context: ‘who will be the guard of the European Enforcement Authorities (EEAs) for the exercise of their enforcement powers in the new setting of shared enforcement’? This contribution focuses on the role of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in this respect, as this is the Union Institution established as the guardian of EU Finances (art. 285 TFEU).

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The Editors

The editors are Miroslava (Mira) Scholten, Laura Zoboli and Kelly Blount. Mira is an Associate Professor of EU law at Utrecht University, a member of the scientific board of Osservatorio AIR, and a member of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). Laura is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. Kelly is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg and a member of the Doctoral Training Unit on Multi-Level Enforcement. All three are members of the Jean Monnet Network on Enforcement of EU Law (JMN EULEN).

Editorial support is provided by Lauren Murray (a Master student at Utrecht University in Law & Economics and assistant to Mira) as well as by Zlatina Georgieva (Assistant professor in Competition, Regulation and Governance at Utrecht University).