7/3/2025 10:23:30 AM Green Goals, Red Tape: Aarhus Convention’s Impact on EU State aid procedure By Onno Brouwer Andreas von Bonin Florian Reiter-Werzin Conor Leavy Isabel Chaves +2 more... Show less In May 2025, the European Commission (EC) amended the State aid rules to ensure compliance with the European Union’s (EU) obligations...
6/30/2025 12:40:10 PM CISAF: The EU’s ambitious State aid framework for competitive decarbonisation By Andreas von Bonin Deborah Janssens Jérôme Philippe Elaine Pajeot Aurélie Morreale Florian Reiter-Werzin Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. +4 more... Show less To reach its ambitious 2050 climate neutrality goal, the European Union (EU) is determined to decarbonise its most greenhouse gas (GHG)...
6/24/2025 3:46:10 PM Roadmap for EU Defence Consolidation: Guidance on M&A and State aid in the EU Commission’s Defence Readiness Omnibus By Andreas von Bonin Thomas Janssens Katharina Kunert Edward Dean Conor Leavy +2 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) recently unveiled its Defence Readiness Omnibus (the Omnibus), an initiative designed to reduce regulatory...
12/20/2024 1:09:34 PM Von der Leyen II and Ribera I – What is in store for State aid policy? By Andreas von Bonin Aurélie Morreale The new European Commission officially took office on 1 December 2024. After significant political manoeuvring and some last-minute...
7/30/2024 8:00:10 AM The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation public procurement tool – key takeaways after the first year of application By Ilka Oberländer Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Kate Gough Anne Dos Sascha Arnold Fabian Bickel +3 more... Show less We take the first anniversary of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) as an opportunity to reflect on the EC’s enforcement under the...
7/26/2024 7:39:40 PM Foreign Subsidies Regulation: The European Commission's guidance on assessing market distortions By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Paul van den Berg Fabian Bickel Justyna Smela Wolski Maxim Betivu +3 more... Show less More than one year after the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) started to apply, many elements of the EC’s substantive assessment...
2/27/2024 10:42:07 AM Taking stock: Four months of notifications under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation - More than 150 cases and one Phase II investigation By Andreas von Bonin Paul van den Berg Merit Olthoff Martin McElwee Vanessa van Weelden Fabian Bickel Maxime Riethuisen +4 more... Show less The first months of notifications under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) have shown that more transactions and public...
7/12/2023 9:02:38 AM EU’s foreign subsidies regime officially kicks off – a new chapter for M&A and public procurement in the EU By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Martin McElwee Paul van den Berg Vanessa van Weelden Aytaç Çelebi Joanna Goyder +4 more... Show less On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (Commission) published the much-awaited final version of the Implementing Regulation on...
7/11/2023 3:08:30 PM Further guidance for businesses on the continued application of EU State aid rules in the UK By Martin McElwee Bola Ajayi Francesca Triggs Two and a half years after the end of the transition period, the European Commission has provided further clarity on the application of...
3/13/2023 3:51:24 PM EU State aid for the green transition: the floodgates are open By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Florian Reiter-Werzin Jonas Levermann +1 more... Show less On 9 March, the European Commission (Commission) significantly amended its State aid framework to support the economy following Russia’s...
1/5/2023 10:40:03 AM The UK Subsidy Control Act comes into force – Practical considerations for beneficiaries of subsidies By Martin McElwee Bola Ajayi Alexandra Forrest Subsidies and rules governing the distribution of subsidies remain a hot topic in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing Ukraine war...
11/14/2022 10:04:09 AM Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe and Ireland v Commission: a summary of the ECJ decision By Laura Western On 8 November 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) adopted its final judgment in the Fiat State aid case. The ECJ set aside the...