Fitness-Check for EU State aid rules

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 is to be expected that, following the previous two major legislative overhauls of State aid control, i.e. the State Aid Action Plan (2004 – 2009) and the State Aid Modernisation (2012 – 2014) the upcoming Commission will carry out a third comprehensive legislative reform package.

Said reform will target the following legislative acts:

• General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER)
• De minimis Regulation
• Guidelines on regional State aid
• Guidelines on State aid to promote risk finance investments
• Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy
• Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring
• Framework for State aid for research and development and innovation (RDI)
• Communication on important projects of common European interest (IPCEI)
• Guidelines on State aid to promote risk finance investments
• Guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines
• Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy
• Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring