Commission amends the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State Aid measures
General Court Upholds European Commission Decision: Belgium's 'Excess Profits Tax Scheme Infringes EU State Aid Rules
The General Court annuls the Commission’s decision on the Spanish tax lease scheme regarding the deduction for indirect acquisitions of shareholdings in foreign companies
Commission extends the transitional period for the Guidelines on State aid concerning regional airports and airlines
Commission adopts rules for implementing the Foreign Subsidies Regulation
Publication of Communication Notice on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of State aid
Commission publishes Q&A on Foreign Subsidy Regulation
Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework : New Framework to further support transition towards net-zero economy
General Block Exemption Regulation : Amendment to further facilitate and speed up green and digital transition
Foreign Subsidies Regulation: Commission seeks feedback on implementation
Proposal for a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework : consultation of Member States
Publication of the Regulation on foreign subsidies
New revised rules for agriculture and forestry
De minimis for Services of General Economic Interest : interested parties invited to comment
The revised Broadband Guidelines are adopted
Services of General Economic Interest : Evaluation’s results published
Semiconductors : The Council adopts its position on the Chips Act
Council gives approval to the Regulation on foreign subsidies
Proposal for the revision of the Regulation on de minimis aid
Temporary Framework Ukraine : Prolongation and amendments
Temporary Framework Ukraine : Member States consulted on extension and amendments
New state aid Framework for State aid for research, development and innovation
Temporary Framework Ukraine : Member States consulted on extension and amendments
Aarhus Convention – State aid : Last chance to provide feedback to the Commission on the application of the Aarhus Convention to state aid decisions
The Commission starts evaluation of the rules on state aid in the form of guarantees
Amendment to the “Temporary Crisis Framework – Ukraine” includes REPowerEU plan objectives
Political agreement on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation
Commission proposes to simplify State aid procedures for green transport
REPowerEU : a European Plan to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and accelerate the ecological transition
New Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022
Commission adopts Temporary Crisis Framework to support the economy in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Green and digital transition : Commission invites interested parties to comment on draft amendments of the GBER
Extension of the scope of GBER
Foreign subsidies: proposal for a regulation
The European Commission adopts new Regional Aid Guidelines
White Paper on foreign subsidies in the Single Market
Commission concludes Gibraltar gave around €100 million of illegal tax advantages to multinational companies
Tempus T-793/14 - The General Court annuls the Commission’s decision not to raise objections to the aid scheme establishing a capacity market in the UK
Micula. SA.38517, Romania, Micula v Romania (ICSID arbitration award) – referral to the Court of Justice for non-implementation of the Commission Decision to recover illegal aid worth up to € 92 million
Montessori. Joined Cases C‑622/16 P to C‑624/16 P. The Court annuls the Commission’s decision not to order recovery of unlawful aid granted by Italy in the form of an exemption from municipal tax on real property.
Covid Temporary Framework – Prolongation
Commission will phase out State aid COVID Temporary Framework
The Commission consults Member States regarding new prolonged State Aid Temporary Framework
Fifth Amendment to the Temporary Framework
Temporary Framework amended to include support to micro, small and start-up companies
Clayton & Segura represented the Belgian State in the referral of the Excess profit rulings case
Spanish tax lease : The Court delivers its judgment
Preliminary rulings addressing many questions relating inter alia to the notion of state resources, effect on trade and the intervention of national courts
Tax exemption for ports : the Commission Decision confirmed by the General Court
The General Court confirms the Commission Decision on new nuclear reactors
The Court of Justice follows the Tempus case law in the IWFA judgement
Judgment Volotea: the application of the MEOP in the context of public policy considerations
Compensation for the closure of coal power plants : The General Court annuls the Commission's decision
The Court of Justice confirms the General Court’s judgment on state aid granted to Valencia Club de Fútbol
Tax rulings : The Court of Justice delivers its judgment in the appeals brought by Fiat-Chrysler and Ireland
The General Court confirms the Commission’s decision ordering the recovery of incompatible Greek aid granted following the fires of 2007
The General Court dismisses actions against state aid Decision on UK Controlled Foreign Company rules (CFC)
Clayton & Segura successfully represented the Belgian State in the application for annulment of Commission decision in the excess profit rulings case
T-901/16 Elche. Order of the General Court regarding the suspension of the execution of a recovery decision
Financement des stades : attention aux aides (illégales) d’Etat !, ecofoot, December 2022
How Sports Teams Can Avoid Significant Fines For Public Sector Funding For Stadium Development, LawInSport, December 2022
Milestones in State Aid Case Law, 2nd edition, EStAL’s first 20 years in perspective, Lexxion
The Chips Act : The role of State aid rules in industrial policy and security of supply, EU Law Live, June 2022
The New Regional Aid Guidelines: First reactions, EU LawLive, April 2021
A Guide To How 'State Aid' Law Impacts European Sports Organisations, Lawinsport, March 2021
How 'State Aid' Rules Have Adapted For Covid-19 And What It Means For The Sports Sector, Lawinsport, March 2021
An Illustration of a Textbook Case or Rather of the Principle That the Devil Is in the Detail? · Cases T-607/17 Volotea, T-716/17 Germanwings and T-8/18 easyJet , EStAL 3/2020
EEA and EFTA States Covid – 19, EStAL 1/2020, 2/2020
Effect on trade of a state intervention: the firth criterion in the notion of state aid, ERA Forum Journal of the Academy of European Law Vol 21, Number 2, October 2020
State aid rules for environmental purposes: an effective instrument for implementing EU policy priorities? ERA Forum Journal of the Academy of European Law Vol 21, Number 4, January 2021
Brexit, the EEA and the EU State aid Rules, EStAL 1/2019
Third Party Rights and the State Aid Procedures Revisited by the European Courts: An Ever-Sounder State Aid Control, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, April 2019
“Prior in Tempore, Potior in Jure” does not exclude state aid to users of infrastructure, Annotation to Case T-108/16 Naviera Armas in European State Aid Law Quarterly 2/2018
Recent Highlights From the EEA EFTA States in European State Aid Law Quarterly 1/2018
The principles for recovery: SMI or the importance of a meticulous assessment of state interventions by the granting authorities and the Commission, in Milestones in State Aid Case Law, EStAL's first 15 years in perspective, February 2018
Nerea: Eligibility as state aid beneficiary and the concept of undertaking in difficulty, in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2017
Brexit: a turmoil both for the EU and the EEA?, Creobis – Business Information and Seminars July 2016
Case T-319/12 and T-321/12 Ciudad de la Luz v Commission, Public investment in a cinema studio and state aid rules: the last showing, EStAL 1/2016
The notion of state aid resources: so near and yet so far, EStAL 2/2015
Case C-522/13 Ministerio de Defensa, Navantia SA v Concello de Ferrol - Not just another ruling on the definition of state aid in Article 107 TFEU but on enforcement of state aid law by national courts: how victory belongs to the most persevering, EStAL 1
State aid contributions on the concept of state aid, meop, de minimis; regional aid, restructuring aid in Schröter/Jakob/Klotz/Mederer [Hrsg.] Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, 2 Auflage, Nomos, 2014
The holy grail of establishing the market value of publicly owned properties; Annotation on the judgment of the EFTA Court of 22 July 2013 in Case E-9/12, EStAL 2/2014
Impact sur les PME de la nouvelle réglementation européenne, in Entreprendre, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry 9/2013
State Aid Modernisation: another reform?, ERA Forum 1/2013
Is locus standi of competitors the "Alpe d'Huez" of the State Aid Procedures Tour?; Annotation on the Judgment of the General Court of 28 March 2012 in Case T-123/09 Ryanair v Commission, EStAL 1/2013
Irish Wind Farmers Annual Conference – The energy sector, wind farms, Ireland and the EU, Kilkenny, October 2022
EDATER, Le cadre juridique des aides d’Etat et les aides à finalité régionale, September 2022
EStALI Autumn Conference, The role of State aid in a technologically sovereign Europe : to semiconductors and beyond, The European State Aid Law Institute, Brussels, September 2022
Vlamex Network Webinar, New EU guidelines for environmental aid : opportunities and challenges, May 2022
Annual Conference on EU Environmental Law 2022, ERA Academy of European Law, EU State Aid Rules for Climate, environmental protection and energy March 2022
EFE Abilways Conference, Taxation, rulings & State aid, February 2022
Annual conference on European State aid Law 2021, ERA Academy of European Law, Tax State aid : inventory and current issues, October 2021
Annual conference on European State aid Law, Informa, Brussels, July 2021
Annual conference on European State aid Law 2020, ERA Academy of European Law, State aid response to the Covid-19 outbreak, Recent measures & the way forward – Nov 2020
EU Competition Law Webinar 1/2020, ERA Academy of European Law, EU Competition Law in Times of COVID-19: Impact of the Global Crisis, Application of State aid rules to support measures granted by Member States – July 2020
Annual Conference on EU Environmental Law 2020, ERA Academy of European Law, EU State aid rules for the environment and energy – March 2020
Chillin’ State Aid Workshop: Charting the Territory, Procedural and institutional issues - June 2019
State aid for Energy Intensive Users balancing competitiveness and environmental objectives, At Conference on State aid for environmental and energy projects, European Academy for Tax Law, Berlin, May 2019
Workshop on Energy and environmental projects: state aid or not? At Conference on State aid for environmental and energy projects, European Academy for Tax Law, Berlin, May 2019
106th Global Competition Law Center Lunch Talk: "Recent changes in State aid control procedures: a new dawn for third parties?" – February 2019
December 2018 - State aid and Services of General Economic Interest - Avignon
October 2018 - Brexit, the EEA and the EU: The state aid rules in turmoil? - State Aid Control: Where law and economics meet, Lexxion and Free University Brussels (Belgium)
August 2018 - State Aid from A to Z: State Aid Procedures, Lexxion, Como (Italy)
April 2018 - State aid for environmental and energy projects - European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
September 2017 - Challenges related to the application of state aid in broadband State aid in the management of European Structural Funds and Investment Funds (ESIF) – DG Regio & DG Competition Brussels (Belgium)
September 2017 – State Aid from A to Z: Infrastructure funding and state aid, Lexxion, Ghent (Belgium)
August 2017 - The General Block Exemption Regulation and environmental aid - European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
October 2016 - State aid and tax rulings: lessons to be learnt from recent Commission decisions, IFE Benelux, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
September 2016 - Are state aid rules undermined by the use of international instruments? - State aid control; where law and economics meet, VUB, Brussels (Belgium)
August 2016 - The General Block Exemption Regulation in practice - European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
June 2016 - State aid in the field of energy: challenges, State aid in the management of European Structural Funds and Investment Funds (ESIF) – DG Regio & DG Competition Brussels (Belgium)
March 2016 – New state aid rules for energy and environmental projects – EU Funding for Energy 2016 Financing Energy Projects in Europe and Beyond, European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
March 2016 - State aid: Looking back and looking forward, State Aid Forum, Oslo (Norway)
January 2016 - Applying the state aid rules in the context of the structural funds, Orléans (France)
August 2015 - Cost calculation for the compensation of SGEI – State aid and SGEI in Health Care, Social Services and Infrastructure, European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
August 2015 - New State Aid Rules for Energy and Environmental Projects – EU Funding for Energy 2015, European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
June 2015 - State aid and SGEI, IFE Benelux, Brussels (Belgium)
May 2015 - Landmark state aid cases in the energy sector, Energy Community Workshop on State Aid in the Energy Sector, Energy Community Secretariat, Vienna (Austria)
March 2015 - How to comply with the public procurement requirements of the SGEI package, Training on State aid and SGEI - Lexxion, Brussels (Belgium)
February 2015 - Diversification of real estate transactions: how to comply with the state aid rules, Meeting Public Service Housing Companies, Namur (Belgium)
February 2015 - Energy Saving Measures, case study, State aid for environmental and energy projects, European Tax Academy, Berlin (Germany)
June 2014 - Modernisation of the state aid rules: how to ensure compliance from 1st July 2014?, IFE Benelux, Brussels (Belgium)
May 2014 - The notion of aid; State Aid and ESIF in Programming Period 2014-2020, Ministry for Development and Competitiveness, Hellenic Presidency of the European Council, Athens (Greece)
May 2014 - The new framework on Services of General Economic Interest; State Aid and ESIF in Programming Period 2014-2020, Ministry for Development and Competitiveness, Hellenic Presidency of the European Council, Athens (Greece)
November 2013 - Håndhevelsen av EØS-retten – ESA og EFTA-domstolens rolle / Enforcement of EEA law - the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the Court's role; Oslo Region European Office, Brussels (Belgium)
November 2013 - New EU policy for regional aid: impact for SMEs; European Week of SMEs, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry, Brussels (Belgium)
September 2013 - State Aid: What you always wanted to know – a practitioner’s guide; Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)