Commission adopts Best Practices Code to streamline and speed up State aid control

Summary:

The European Commission adopted on 16 July 2018 a new Best Practices Code for State aid control. The Code provides guidance to the Commission, Member States, businesses and other stakeholders on the day-to-day conduct of State aid procedures, to improve their effectiveness, transparency and predictability.

Further information:

To make the most of these modernised State aid rules, the Best Practices Code for State aid control gives guidance on how the Commission, Member States and other stakeholders work together in State aid procedures. This covers, for example, how to ensure that complex State aid cases are handled most effectively, how complaints about State aid are followed up, and monitoring of how Member States implement State aid measures in practice.

The Best Practices Code explains how State aid procedures are carried out, and sets out the steps the Commission is taking to increase the speed, transparency and predictability of these procedures.

Official

European Commission: DG Competition: Best Practices Code for State aid control http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/reform/best_practise/en.pdf

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