Journal:

European State Aid Law Quarterly

The European State Aid Law Quarterly (EStAL) is the leading legal journal devoted to State aid law and policy in Europe. It serves as a forum for open dialogue and reflection among academics, judges, EU and national officials, and private practitioners.

Read all about the latest issue below.

EU State Aid Law and International Investment Treaties: An Arm-Wrestling Contest?

Editorial by Leo Flynn published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

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State Aid Cases before the Austrian Courts in 2015 – Two Old Acquaintances and One New Case

News from the Member States - Austria by Birgit Haslinger published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

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State Aid in the Broadband Sector

News from the Member States - Slovakia by Peter Hodál published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

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Spanish Renewable Energy Dispute

News from the Member States - Spain by Miguel Ángel Bolsa Ferruz published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

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The Pricing of Access to Publicly-Funded Research Infrastructure and State Aid Rules

Article by Phedon Nicolaides published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The new rules on State aid for R&D&Innovation introduce significant clarifications on the concept of R&D that does not constitute economic activity and the conditions under which public funding [...]

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Services of General Economic Interest: Towards Common Values?

Article by Aleksander Maziarz published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The aim of the article is to analyse the concept of services of general economic interest (SGEI). It tries to answer the questions whether there are common values for such services and whether [...]

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EU State Aid Law and Professional Football: A Threat or a Blessing?

Article by Oskar Van Maren published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The European Commission’s decision to investigate alleged State aid granted to numerous professional football clubs in the Netherlands and Spain has caused a wave of criticisms. National [...]

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State Aid and Supply Chain Investment

Article by Jay Mehta published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

This article seeks to examine the effectiveness of the current State aid rules in facilitating the development and incentivisation of supply chains through State support, while at the same time [...]

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State Aid Regulation and Future Industrial Policy in Ukraine

Article by Eugene Stuart, Iana Roginska published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The regulation of State aid can pose a range of challenges for policy-makers in the areas of industrial and economic development within the countries where such rules apply. These difficulties [...]

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The Interference of Law and Economics: The Case of Guarantees for Bank Debt and Their Impact on the Competitiveness of the EU Member States

Article by Piotr Podsiadło published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

State aid to companies is a highly sensitive economic and legal issue that strongly impacts on the functioning of the European Union as an integrating economic system. The special importance of [...]

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Compatibility of Germany’s Renewable Energy Support Scheme with European State Aid Law – Recent Developments and Political Background

Article by Andreas Haak, Michael Brüggemann published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The promotion of renewable energies has been one of the cornerstones of Germany’s government work for the past decade. As a result of the so-called energy transformation (Energiewende), in [...]

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Bouygues v European Commission ∙ Joined Cases T-425/04 RENV and T-444/04 RENV

Case Note by María Muñoz de Juan published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

On 2 July 2015, the General Court decided, for the second time, whether the French State’s support declarations and the shareholder loan offered to France Télécom constitute State aid. For [...]

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Hansestadt Lübeck v European Commission ∙ Case T-461/12

Case Note by Juan Jorge Piernas López published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

This note analyses the General Court judgment of September 2014 (Third Chamber) in case T-461/12 Hansestadt Lübeck v European Commission. The note discusses firstly the background and main [...]

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Commission v Anderson ∙ Case C-303/13 P

Case Note by Udo Woll published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

The Andersen case brought a fundamental question on the application ratione temporis of secondary State aid law to the court. Which legislation is applicable, if the relevant European State aid [...]

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Micula v Romania ∙ Commission Decision SA.385

Case Note by Emanuela Matei published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

In 1999, Romania adopted a fiscal aid scheme and later has repealed it for reasons of incompatibility with the provisions of national legislation on the implementation of EU State aid rules. [...]

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BVVG Bodenverwertungs-und –verwaltungs GmbH ∙ Case C-39/14

Case Note by Adrien Giraud, Sylvain Petit published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

On 15 July 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter the ECJ or the Court) handed down a preliminary ruling regarding the possibility for a public authority to discard the [...]

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Ciudad de la Luz v Commission ∙ Joined Cases T-319/12 and T-321/12

by Marinne Clayton, Maria J. Segura, Egill D. Ólafsson published in EStAL 1/2016, 20.04.2016

By a judgment dated 3 July 2014, the General Court confirmed the Commission’s Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) assessment of the public investment in the film studio complex Ciudad de [...]