This book focuses on the enforcement of EU financial law on the national and supra-national levels. Emphasis is laid on the interaction between the EU and national levels (vertical interaction), as well as between the private, administrative, and criminal law levels (horizontal interaction). The book takes a multi-jurisdiction and inter-disciplinary approach and covers a range of issues that are highly topical, such as the new EU Anti-Money Laundering regime, and the ReNEUAL model for administrative law.

Over the last few decades, EU financial law has grown exponentially. Virtually all these new rules and regulations require enforcement. However, the EU legislator generally has been reluctant to regulate enforcement at the national level, and often does not prescribe whether enforcement should take place through national criminal, administrative, or private law. This results in both practical and fundamental questions for the legal practitioner and the academic. This book addresses those questions.

With contributions by leading academics and senior members of EU and national institutions, the book will be of interest to professionals dealing with financial law in their daily practice such as lawyers, bankers, policy makers, officers at supervisory authorities, and judges, but also for academics interested in fundamental questions of interaction between legal systems.

Jan Crijns is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Matthias Haentjens is Professor of Private Law and Director of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Deputy Judge in the District Court of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Rijnhard Haentjens is Emeritus Professor of Financial Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and former Vice-President of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, the Netherlands.