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).
Author: Emma van Gelder, Alex Brenninkmeijer & Gaston Moonen
Emma van Gelder (photo) is a Master student Legal Research at the University of Utrecht and a trainee at the European Court of Auditors.
Prof. dr. Alex Brenninkmeijer is a Member of the European Court of Auditors in the Dutch Cabinet and Professor of the rule of law's institutional aspects, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Gaston Moonen is the Head of the Dutch Cabinet at the European Court of Auditors.