- Volume 8 (2009), Issue 3
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The General Block Exemption Regulation: A Giant on Feet of Clay
Commission Regulation (EC) 800/2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General Block Exemption Regulation/ GBER) is significantly extending Member States’ possibilities to grant aid without prior notification: although the unification of block exemptions into one single and coherent document is to be welcomed, as are the steps towards greater clarity of the provisio