State Aid and EU funding: are they compatible?
In-Depth Analysis
16-04-2018
State aid involves the transfer of state resources. These are resources which are controlled by public authorities. EU funds which are granted directly to undertakings without coming under the control of a public authority of a Member State cannot be considered to be state resources. However, EU funds channelled through managing authorities become state resources and can constitute state aid if all the other criteria of Article 107(1) TFEU are satisfied.
In-Depth Analysis
External author
Professor Phedon Nicolaides
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business classification
- competition
- control of State aid
- distribution of EU funding
- economic geography
- economic policy
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- EU finance
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- European Investment Bank
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- small and medium-sized enterprises
- State aid