On November 8, 2022, the CJEU overturned the judgment of the lower court, which was the subject of an appeal, regarding a tax ruling that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg had issued to Fiat Chrysler. The Commission had classified this ruling as unlawful state aid...
On 25 January 2022 the CJEU has annulled the ruling of the General Court in the famous Micula case which has given rise to intense debate for years amongst EU State aid experts (CJEU, Case C-638/19 P, ECLI:EU:C:2022:50). The first instance court had seen the...
As long ago as in 2019 the CJEU has refused to accept an aid block – exempted under the Commission´s General Block Exemption Regulation by its own self-assessment as „authorised” and therefore existing aid (see CJEU, judgment of 5.3.2019, Case C-347/17, Eesti Pagar, ECLI:EU:C:2019:172 and...
By its press release of 7 January 2019 the European Commission announced that the end of the current Multiannual Financial Framework would raise the necessity to have a significant number of legal frameworks, guidelines and regulations to be put to a fitness check. Hence, it...
It has been a feature common to EU State aid control that complaints against alleged undue advantages of competitors have, quite regularly so, proven to be a dragging and tiresome business. In most cases the complaints got rejected at the very end of this process....
On 19 December 2018 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice ruled on a preliminary request by Germany´s Federal Finance Court that had asked whether exemptions from the real property transfer tax which may under certain conditions be granted in the context of...
On 6 June 2018 the EU Commission has presented its proposal for a widening of the ambit of the so-called Enabling Regulation (Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1588 of 13 July 2015 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of...
On 12 July 2018 the EU General Court has dismissed the legal action lodged by the Republic of Austria against the Commission decision of 8 July 2014 concerning the financial support to the nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C in the English county of Somerset...
On 28 June 2018 the European Court of Justice handed down all-in-all four rulings by which it decided on the appeals lodged against the first instance judgments of the EU General Court in the case concerning the German “Sanierungsklausel” (see Cases C – 219/16 P,...
