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"Acknowledgements" [2017] ELECD 1512; in Scholten, Miroslava; Luchtman, Michiel (eds), "Law Enforcement by EU Authorities" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) xii

Book Title: Law Enforcement by EU Authorities

Editor(s): Scholten, Miroslava; Luchtman, Michiel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786434623

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Acknowledgements
Law enforcement by EU authorities is a new development in the field
of EU law and governance. This development and its implications for
accountability have not been investigated before, at least not from the
comprehensive perspective of all the existing EU authorities, their rel-
evant national counterparts and the yet non-existent but much-debated
European Public Prosecutor's Office. This edited collection is a remark-
able result of the effort of many, who are to be acknowledged here.
First, it is the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in
European (RENFORCE). This is a unique centre, which unites scholars
and practitioners from different fields of law and disciplines. It creates a
platform for fruitful cooperation resulting in such cross-sectoral studies as
this one. Thanks to the financial support of RENFORCE, we were able to
generate the data in relation to all EU policy areas and actors to find out how
many EU entities have already received direct enforcement tasks, to team
up with many outstanding scholars and practitioners within and outside
the Netherlands to start up and further this project (meetings in February
and September of 2016 in Utrecht) and finalize this book. For research and
administrative support, we thank the data collectors Elmar Schmidt and
Marloes van Rijsbergen, Laurens van Kreij, Tobias Nyborg and Tom
Binder. For the language check, we are grateful to the Wiarda Institute.
It goes without saying that investigation of all the relevant EU entities
and their national counterparts and the analysis ...