The last issue of 2018 of the European State Aid Law Quarterly is dedicated to the European Commission’s follow-up of approved State aid measures, monitoring their implementation by Member States and evaluating their economic impact, as part of the State aid Modernisation reforms that begun in 2012. Our articles cover the state-of-the-art of State aid Evaluations and how they could look in the future; what changes when moving from ex ante to ex post control in the Monitoring of State aid; a detailed analysis of the Impact of State Aid on Competition; and the national Experience of the United Kingdom with State Aid Evaluation.

Two enormously important cases receive expert annotations: The General Court’s ruling on Case T‑356/15 Hinkley Point C (especially important for those daunted by its 736 paragraphs!) and the Court of Justice’s Case C‑579/16 P FIH Holding.

We also have the latest State aid news from Belgium, the EEA and EFTA States, Poland and Spain.

To close off, returning to our regular sections is the Event Report on the high-level conference Economics of State aid Control: Where Law and Economics Meet, organized by Lexxion Publisher and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in cooperation with E.CA Economics, which took place on 5 October 2018 in Brussels.

View all articles of EStAL 4/2018 here.