Péter Staviczky

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 14 (2015), Issue 1, Page 117 - 129

State aid law sets some barriers for each project or undertaking above which State funding is not allowed. However, compliance with these requirements is not straightforward and simple especially when different types of State aid and/or different forms of State aid is granted to the same undertaking. With the State Aid Modernisation rules on cumulation become clearer, although some difficulties still remain. Keywords: Cumulation, De minimis aid, Eligible costs, GBER, Regional aid, Risk capital, SAM.

Péter Staviczky

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 14 (2015), Issue 3, Page 332 - 339

Selectivity is an evergreen topic of the State aid jurisprudence and related legal literature. The European Courts have dealt with this issue in great detail regularly. Following the landmark judgments of the recent years the method to establish whether a measure is selective or not has been crystallized. This three step method has been however challenged by two recent judgments of the General Court both on Spanish tax measures. Since the judgments create some ambiguity it is worth to explore their arguments and highlight the weak points as Member States have to follow the jurisprudence if they intend to build a State aid compliant tax system. Keywords: Notion of Aid, Selectivity, de facto Selectivity, Action for Annulment, Undertakings in similar Factual and Legal Situation

Péter Staviczky

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 11 (2012), Issue 1, Page 215 - 220