- Volume 8 (2009), Issue 2
- Vol. 8 (2009), No. 2
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In the current financial and economic crisis, the European Commission is faced with a great number of emergency measures and is under a lot of political and economic pressure to deal with these cases quickly. In order to maintain at least the substantive standards of State aid control, the Commission has opted for a special crisis procedure. The main characteristics of the crisis procedure are speed, a streamlined consultation process within DG Comp a