Keeping you updated about state aid news

01. Latest state aid news

02. State aid and coronavirus

03. Latest state aid decisions and judgements

04. Publications

  • 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

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  • 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

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05. Conferences

  • 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

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  • 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)

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