- Volume 11 (2012), Issue 4
- Vol. 11 (2012), No. 4
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- Pages 765 - 767
- pp. 765 - 767
Does the Modernisation of State Aid Control Put Legal Certainty and Simplicity at Risk?
The European Commission’s State Aid Modernization (SAM) initiative will provide the Commission, Member States and potential beneficiaries with new challenges. While I support the Commission’s intended focus on cases with the highest impact on the internal market – preferably by initiating parallel, EU-wide investigations into similar schemes – and on streamlining the State aid framework to achieve that goal, we must take account of the risks that come