Press Release: State aid: Commission approves regional investment aid for Mondi in Poland and Masdar in Germany

The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules public support for two regional investment projects, one in Poland in favour of paper companies Mondi Świecie and Mondi Packaging Paper Świecie and one in Germany in favour of the German solar modules producer Masdar.

The Commission concluded that the measures comply with the regional aid guidelines, because the aid intensity, the beneficiaries' market shares and the capacity created by the assisted projects are sufficiently low to ensure that the benefits of the aid for regional development will outweigh any potential distortions of competition brought about by the aid.