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The Application of the Market Economy Investor Principle in the German Landesbanken cases
I. Introduction The Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) belongs to the well established concepts in EC State aid control as a tool to verify whether State aid is present. It was developed by the Commission and the Community courts in a long series of cases and forms part of several Commission Notices1. However, its application still poses questions and the German Landesbanken cases give ample examples of the ongoing developments in the appraisal