State Aid control
Scoreboard, reports and studies
In addition to the State aid Scoreboard, this section includes a selection of state aid reports and studies that were prepared or commissioned
by the Commission. The lists are not exhaustive compilations but rather are designed to provide a useful information source. Neither the European Commission not any person acting on behalf of the Commission
is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the information. Reports produced by external consultants represent their authors' views on the subject matter. These views have not been adopted or
in any way approved by the Commission and should not be relied upon as a statement of either the Commission's or DG Competition's views.
Scoreboard
The Scoreboard is the Commission’s benchmarking instrument for State aid, measuring progress towards the goals of the Lisbon agenda of March 2000 which called on the Commission, the Council and
Member States to "further their efforts to … reduce the general level of State aid, shifting the emphasis from supporting individual
companies or sectors towards tackling horizontal objectives of Community interest, such as employment, regional development, environment and training or research".
The Scoreboard was launched by the Commission in July 2001 to provide a transparent and publicly accessible source of information on the overall
State aid situation in each of the EU Member States and on the Commission's current State aid control activities. It is published twice a year, one in the spring, the other in the autumn. Since
2005, the autumn update includes state aid expenditure figures for the previous calendar year while the spring update focuses on selected state aid topics.
Latest version of the Scoreboard
- Spring 2009 update: COM(2009) 164, 08.04.2009, Special edition on State aid interventions in the current financial and economic crisis.
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- Press release - Memo
Previous versions of the Scoreboard and the State aid Survey
Scoreboard published by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
More in-depth statistics
For comments and contact: Stateaid-Scoreboard@ec.europa.eu
Studies
Handbooks
- Handbook on State aid rules for SMEs
This Handbook gives a concise overview of the aid possibilities for the SMEs as allowed by the Community State aid rules. It also includes measures covered by the Temporary framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis in its amended version of 25.02.2009.
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- Vademecum on State aid rules
The Vademecum summarizes the main rules applicable to State aid control in a concise manner. It is a first point of reference for Community, national and local stakeholders dealing with State aid control issues, and points to the relevant legal texts.
The document is divided into two parts. The first, general part, provides a basic description of the notion of State aid as such. The second part consists of fiches each of which is devoted to a particular type of aid and a description of the relevant main terms and governing rules.
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This update reflects the latest changes in State aid rules, including the adoption in August 2008 of the new General Block Exemption Regulation, which exempts 26 measures from the notification obligation.
- Vademecum on regeneration of deprived urban areas ,
01.03.2006 (updated in 2007)
Reports
- 10.8.2009 DG Competition's review of guarantee and recapitalisation schemes in the financial sector in the current crisis
Summary
This review does not necessarily represent the position of the Commission.
- State aid: Commission report highlights benefits to Member States of block exemption regulations,
21.12.2006
Report on the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 of 7 May 1998 regarding the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to certain categories of horizontal State aid.
Press release IP/07/9
- Services of General Economic Interest - Opinion Prepared by the State Aid Group of EAGCP, 29.06.2006
- Report on The Market Trends of Private Reinsurance in the Field of Export Credit Insurance", by IMC Consultants Limited, May 2005. (361 KB)
- Report on the implementation of the Commission notice on the application of the state aid rules to measures relating to direct business taxation, Report adopted by the Commission on 09.02.2004
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- Report of Ibex Consultants Ltd: Review of Community guidelines for national regional aid, April 2003
- Report on the state of play in the work on the guidelines for state aid and services of general economic interest, 2002
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- Progress report concerning the reduction and reorientation of State aid, October 2002
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- Report to the Seville European Council on the status of work on the guidelines for state aid and services of general economic interest, June 2002
- Report to the Laeken European Council - Services of General Interest (Presented by the Commission)
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- Report on the application of EC state aid law by the Member State courts, June 1999
- Report on services of general economic interest in the banking sector
adopted by the Commission on 17.06.1998 and presented to the ECOFIN Council on 23.11.1998
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