The threshold above which a foreign subsidy is considered to distort the internal market needs to be further investigated, said some MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade on Monday 25 October, as the European Commission presented its proposal (see EUROPE B12713A1) to combat this kind of foreign subsidies.
The rapporteur of the legislative text, Christophe Hansen (EPP, Luxembourg), said he was generally satisfied with the Commission’s proposal, which he...