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The Role of Economics-based Approaches when Analysing Effects on Trade and Distortions of Competition after Wam
I. Introduction Since the publication of the European Commission’s State Aid Action Plan1 in 2005, and the proposed introduction of a “refined economic approach” into State aid control, academics and practitioners alike2 have actively debated the exact role that economics-based tests play in the State aid rules. At the time that the State Aid Action Plan was published, the Commission emphasised in its press releases that the adoption of a more re