- Volume 13 (2014), Issue 4
- Vol. 13 (2014), No. 4
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- Pages 665 - 674
- pp. 665 - 674
EU State Aid and Energy Policies as an Instrument of Environmental Protection: Current Stage and New Trends
Climate change, combined with the current financial crisis creates a huge, multi-level and multi-faceted problemfor EUMember States. The overall aimof this contribution is to analyse the role of the EU Environmental State aid regime in the form of tax reliefs in the energy sector, as an effective instrument to promote environmental protection. Accordingly, EU competition policy not only represents a very strong system to limit Member State tax powers, but also a way t