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Acquis and Legislation
State
Aids and Competition
A comprehensive overview of the legal framework
and the decisions concerning state aids is given on the
State
Aids webpages of DG TREN.
Legal Framework
-
Regulation
(EC) No 1/2003 of the Council of 16 December 2002
on the implementation of the rules on competition laid
down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty, OJ L1 of 4
January 2003, p. 1
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Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2843/98 of 22 December 1998
on the form, content and other details of applications
and notifications provided for in Council Regulations
(EEC) No 1017/68, (EEC) No 4056/86 and (EEC) No 3975/87
applying the rules on competition to the transport
sector, OJ
L354, 30 December 1998, p. 22
- Regulation
(EEC) No 1107/70 of the Council of 4 June 1970 on
the granting of aids for transport by rail, road and
inland waterway
- Regulation
(EEC) No 1017/68 of the Council of 19 July 1968
applying rules of competition to transport by rail, road
and inland waterway
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Consolidated
version of Regulations 1107/70, 1473/75 and 1658/82
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Form
for the submission of complaints concerning alleged unlawful
State aid, OJ C116, 16 May 2003, p. 3.
Decisions and
Notifications
Below, a
list is given of Commission decisions on state aids granted by the
Member States to the railway sector, and which have been notified or
examined by the Commission. This list is a selection of the
list
of cases published on the website of the Commission's
Secretariat-General. These decisions are only published in the official language(s) of the Member State involved.
Furthermore, you will find a list of decisions and notifications
concerning concentrations and other procedures launched by the
Commission under Art. 81 and 82 of the Treaty.
State
Aids
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Decision
N287/2002:
State Aid awarded by Denmark for Environmental subsidies for
transport of goods by rail.
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Decision
XNN122/2000
(French text only) refers to restructuration aid granted by the
French authorities to SNCF's parcels division SERNAM. The
Commission has decided to open a new case (C34/2003) in relation
to this: see also the Commission's press
release 03/598 of 30 April 2003. Invitation to submit
comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty concerning
Aid C 32/03 (ex NN 122/2000), ‘Sernam
2: Revision of restructuring aid’, OJ
C 182 of 1 August 2003, p. 2.
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Decision
N687/2002 (not published yet) refers to the Commission's
authorisation to grant further state aid for the construction of
the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL): see also the Commission's press
release 03/599.
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Decision
N64/2003: State aids for combined transport in Italy.
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Decision
N464/2003: UK-Company Neutral Revenue Scheme (CNRS),
Commission decision of 16.12.2003
Reports
The
Commission's Directorate-General for Competition publishes a
twice-yearly State Aid scoreboard. The full
report, as well as previous reports, show that the transport
sector accounts for a significant amount of Euros state aid granted in
the European Union. The aids granted to the railway sector are
almost exclusively provided to the railway network for
infrastructure investments and public service contracts and
obligations in passenger transport.
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