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Commission’s Decisional Practice on State Aid to Railway Companies for Transport Coordination

Germano Guglielmi, Stefania Bello

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/estal/2020/3/7

Keywords: transport coordination, Article 93 TFEU, Railway Guidelines


The concept of coordination of transport set forth by Article 93 TFEU is actually very vague. The Railway Guidelines provide guidance and criteria for the interpretation of this concept and the direct application to railway undertakings of Article 93 TFEU. This article focuses on the Commission Decisions concerning transport coordination, which directly or indirectly concern railway transport. In particular, the research aims at reconstructing State aid measures adopted between 2008 and 2019, assessed by the Commission pursuant either to Article 93 TFEU or to both Article 93 TFEU and the Railway Guidelines. The main purposes of this article are, firstly, to analyse how the Commission applied and interpreted this specific exception and, secondly, to assess whether the Railway Guidelines are sufficiently exhaustive or, on the contrary, they should be updated and/or extended in light of a potential revision under evaluation by the Commission.
Keywords: transport coordination, Article 93 TFEU, Railway Guidelines

Germano Guglielmi, Head of Legislative Affairs, Public Funding and State Aid Department, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A.. Stefania Bello, Advisor in Legislative Affairs, Public Funding and State Aid Department, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A.. The authors work in the business sector discussed in the article. The views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the authors. For correspondence: <mailto:g.guglielmi@fsitaliane.it> and <mailto:s.bello@fsitaliane.it>.

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