PART II: Concessions and State Aid: Does the State Act as a Regulator or Market Operator?
When Member States act as regulators they need not maximise revenue from the granting of […]
Archiv
PART I: Concessions and State Aid: Does the State Act as a Regulator or Market Operator?
When Member States act as regulators they need not maximise revenue from the granting of […]
Top 5 State Aid Uncovered Posts in 2017
Questions around grants for R&D&I projects, economic activities of religious establishments or concession agreements besides […]
Sport and Trade
State aid has a purely local impact when i) the beneficiaries supply goods or services […]
How to Determine whether State Aid Affects Trade
Article 107(1) requires the assessment of both the direct and indirect impact of a public […]
Imputability of an Aid Measure to the State Does not Require a Counterfactual
The fact that the state owns an undertaking is not enough to prove that the […]
The Legal Basis of the (In)compatibility of Aid Must be Clear
The European Commission may withdraw a decision, but before it adopts a new decision it […]
i) Transfer of State Resources, ii) Non-recovery of Incompatible Aid, iii) Primacy of Agricultural Policy over Competition Policy
Private resources that come under the control of a public authority become state resources. The […]
Existing v New Aid
Any alteration of an existing aid measure can affect the substance of the measure itself. […]
Indirect v Secondary Effects of State Aid
The prohibition of State aid in Article 107(1) of the Treaty applies both to the […]