The European Commission announced, on Thursday 7 March, that it was opening a call for evidence in order to gather comments from stakeholders on its plan to adopt new rules on State aid for ‘green’ transport in order to simplify and better align these rules with European Green Deal and Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy targets.
As part of the revision of the Railway Guidelines on State aid, the European Commission wants to adopt a new Transport Block Exemption Regulation (TBER) for State aid in the field of transport. The Commission stresses that this TBER will complement the revised Railway Guidelines.
The new rules would declare certain categories of State aid for ‘greener’ modes of transport compatible with the internal market. In practice, these new rules would exempt certain types of State aid - for rail, inland waterway and multimodal transport - from prior notification to the Commission.
The call for evidence and feedback is now open for four weeks, until 3 April. The information gathered will be used as part of the Commission’s impact assessment.
Link to the call for evidence: https://aeur.eu/f/b78 (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)