On Monday 31 July, the European Commission announced that it had authorised the reintroduction of a Czech aid measure worth around €380 million (CZK 9 billion) to modernise the country’s rail sector.
The measure was authorised under EU state aid rules and, in particular, Article 93 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU concerning transport coordination, as well as the 2008 guidelines on state aid to rail transport.
This Czech scheme was initially approved in April 2017 and...