On Monday 16 July, the European Commission adopted a new Best Practices Code concerning controls on state aid, in order to improve the efficiency and transparency of these controls and the predictability of procedures.
The adoption of this document comes in the framework of the work to update state aid controls undertaken by the Commission in 2012 (see EUROPE 10611) aiming in particular to streamline the institution's work in this area. It will give the member states the option to award...