The Commission has adopted and published new guidelines to assist the courts of member States' in applying EU state aid rules. The guidelines are supposed to support national courts and potential claimants in challenging domestic state aid, in particular in the recovery of illegal aid from the beneficiary, interim relief or possible damages actions. In addition, the guidelines cover how national judges can ask the Commission for information or opinions on how to apply of the state aid rules.
You can see the complete guidelines here.
The Commission has published a press release and some useful "faqs" here.
Those guidelines on state aids are rather like these on those in antitrust on coöperation with domestic courts.
Very good information. Thanks for sharing..
Posted by: cptan | March 15, 2009 at 06:53 PM