Regional Aid Guidelines 2014-2020 journal article Jan Philipp Otter, Georg Glavanovits European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 13 (2014), Issue 3, Page 404 - 408 Implications for Large Enterprises Regional aid to large enterprises (LEs) and large investment projects (LIPs) have long been a thorn in the Commission’s side. With the Guidelines on regional State aid for 2007-2013 (RAG 2007) the Commission had already set (itself) the scene for the restrictive decision practice it has been following regarding such aid. The RAG 2014-2020 (RAG 2014)1 move further down this road and severely limit the eligibility o
Regional State Aid: Market Definition in Large Investment Projects of the Automotive Industry journal article Jan Philipp Otter, Baskaran Balasingham European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 12 (2013), Issue 3, Page 516 - 522 I. Introduction Under the Guidelines on National Regional Aid for 2007–2013 (hereinafter ‘RAG’)1 the regional aid has been notified for a series of large investment projects (LIPs) in the automotive industry. In some cases, the Commission gave approval in the preliminary examination procedure without an in-depth assessment, e. g. in Ford Craiova,2 Ford Espana,3 or Jaguar (Tata).4 In other cases, the Commission opened the formal investigation procedure
Judgment By Formula: Regulatory Form and the Differentiation of Fiscal Measures and Non-Fiscal Measures in EU State Aid Law Christopher McMahon