Overview   Consultation

The procurement aims to obtain a study on the State aid enforcement by national courts in the EU, including a comprehensive overview of the relevant national court cases since the last study carried out for the Commission, i.e. 1st January 2018. Through the Study, the Commission intends to obtain the state of play of the application of State aid rules before national courts, the identification of the main obstacles and best practices arising at national level, as well as recommendations on possible actions to be undertaken by the Commission and at national level to improve the effectiveness and uniformity of State aid enforcement.

The European Commission invites expressions of interest for the role of Non-Governmental Advisors in the International Competition Network (ICN) for the 2026-2027 term.
ICN members collaborate with non-governmental advisors, including academics, industry representatives, consumer groups, trade unions, and private practitioners. This collaboration enriches ICN projects by incorporating diverse perspectives.
We seek to partner with various ICN-NGAs to ensure high-quality contributions based on broad stakeholder experience. Selected ICN-NGAs will actively engage with the European Commission in drafting and revising Working Group outputs, and participating in seminars, webinars, and workshops.
If you are interested in becoming an ICN-NGA and supporting the European Commission, please contact DG Competition at COMP-ICN@ec.europa.eu. The call for interest will be open until 16 June 2026 (close of business).

The Commission is publishing for consultation the draft Guidelines on State aid to the air transport sector, which will replace the 2014 Guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines.
This consultation will be open to the general public. National authorities, airports, airlines and related associations are in particular welcome to contribute.
Deadline for the submission of contributions is 11 June 2026
See also the European Commission's press release.

The Commission is consulting third parties on the draft measures that Alphabet must implement to ensure effective interoperability with AI services on its Android operating system (Google Android), as required by Article 6(7) of the DMA. The Commission especially welcomes contributions from companies with first-hand experience on issues concerned by these proceedings, such as those providing Artificial Intelligence (AI) services on Android smartphones and tablets or Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) whose mobile devices are powered by Google Android.
See also the Commission's press release.

Consultation on the proposed measures that Alphabet must implement to ensure effective sharing of Google Search data with third party undertakings providing online search engines, as required by Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").
The Commission will carefully assess the feedback provided by interested parties and Alphabet. The input received may result in adjustments to the proposed measures and will feed in the Commission’s decision making the measures legally binding on Alphabet. The Commission will adopt a final decision by 27 July 2026 (within six months of opening the proceedings).

Current State aid rules for banks in difficulty, last updated in 2013, enable State aid to banks in difficulty to ensure financial stability while minimising distortions of competition. The revision of the State aid rules for banks in difficulty is undertaken with the view to bring consistency with the EU resolution (Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance) framework legislation and to bring simplification by replacing the six existing Communications into a single one.

The Guarantee Notice of 2008 describes how the Commission assesses State guarantees, on loans to undertakings for example. The general aim of the Notice is to ensure a clear, predictable and easy-to-apply framework for Member States to establish guarantee premia that are in conformity with what market operators would charge (‘market-conform premia’) and to implement guarantee measures.
The Commission’s recent evaluation of the notice has revealed some areas in need of improvement. This call for evidence is open for feedback. Your input will be taken into account as we further develop and fine-tune this initiative.

Based on the Guidelines on regional State aid, EU countries can grant regional aid in assisted areas in the EU, as identified in a regional aid map and in line with the conditions laid down in those guidelines.
The current regional aid maps expire on 31 December 2027. This initiative aims to update the statistical data required for creating the new regional aid maps that will be used from 2028 to 2034.

DG Competition has launched today an open call for tenders for the organisation of a EU-Africa School on Competition Policy.
The focus of the planned activity will primarily be to explain key concepts of EU competition law and enforcement policy to African officials and to introduce them to the functioning of the European Competition Network. This action should allow African enforcement officials and policymakers alike to critically reflect on and review current domestic competition legislation as well as enforcement practices. As a potential result, competition law enforcement will become fairer, predictable and more rigorous, thereby improving investment conditions for EU and African companies on the African continent.
Deadline for applications is 19th March 2026.

The Communication from the Commission on the application of State aid rules to public service broadcasting sets out the framework governing the public funding of public service broadcasting. It was last reviewed in 2009. The Commission will evaluate how the Communication has worked and assess whether the rules: • are still fit for purpose, • address recent technological, market and legal developments, • deliver the intended outcomes, and • could be simplified or made clearer.
The general public consultation questionnaire is available here; whereas the expert consultation questionnaire is available here.
The deadline to reply to both questionnaires is 14 January 2026.
See also the Commission's press release.

The DMA and the GDPR are independent regulatory frameworks with complementary objectives and several points of intersection. To ensure the coherent and effective application of the two sets of rules, the Commission and the EDPB decided to issue Joint Guidelines on the interplay between the DMA and the GDPR (Joint Guidelines). The Joint Guidelines provide guidance to gatekeepers on how to interpret and comply with the two sets of rules, ensuring that the distinct competences of the Commission and the EDPB are respected.
The objective of the consultation is to gather feedback on the draft Joint Guidelines. The Commission and the EDPB will carefully review all submissions before adopting the final Joint Guidelines, in 2026.
See also the Commission's press release.

The goal of the public consultation is to gather insights and feedback from national, regional and local authorities, stakeholders and the public.
This will notably help the Commission to assess, in a collaborative, transparent and inclusive manner, how the SGEI Decision needs to be amended to facilitate affordable housing investments.
Citizens, organisations and public authorities can contribute to the public consultation until 4 November 2025.
See also the European Commission's press release.

DG COMP is working on a follow-up to the comprehensive 2024 report: “Protecting competition in a changing world: Evidence on the evolution of competition in the EU during the past 25 years”. This report identified important changes over the past 25 years in the competitive environment (rising concentration, markups and profits, declining business dynamism). It also identified a number of likely structural and institutional drivers of those changes (rise of intangible investments, globalisation, regulation and M&A). The 2024 report did however not explore whether changes in management practices (strategies and tactics) may also have contributed to some of the detected trends.
The present study seeks to address this gap by exploring whether the rise of modern pricing and revenue management strategies and tactics may have partly contributed to some of the observed changes in the competitive environment, inter alia by increasing the risk of collusion.

On 11 September 2025, the Commission published drafts of the revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and the Technology Transfer Guidelines for stakeholder comments. 
Through the consultation, the Commission aims to gather stakeholder feedback on the changes it proposes to address the issues identified in the evaluation phase. Since the launch of the impact assessment, the Commission has gathered further evidence on possible changes to the current rules. This evidence has been taken into account in the preparation of the draft revised TTBER and Guidelines.
See also the European Commission's press release.

The European Commission seeks to utilise the contractor’s software and technological expertise in order to obtain comprehensive technical assistance in the implementation of Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act, including the monitoring of the implementation of the Specification Decision for Case DMA.100203 – Article 6(7) – Apple – iOS – SP – Features for Connected Physical Devices. On an exceptional basis, the call for tenders shall be open to economic operators established in in a EU Member State or a third country which has a special agreement with the European Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement.
this is not a call for tenders but a publication announcing the contracting authority’s intention to publish a future negotiated low or middle value procedure.
Deadline for expression of interest: 26/09/2025

The European Commission is seeking feedback on how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) can support fair and contestable digital markets, including the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector.
To that end, the Commission published yesterday a call for evidence with additional information on the DMA review process and the public consultation launched on 3 July, as well as an AI questionnaire.
See also the Commission's press release.

The European Commission has today launched a Call for Evidence and a public consultation to seek input on the scope and content of its revision of the Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring non-financial undertakings in difficulty (‘Rescue and Restructuring Guidelines'). This input will be used to update the Guidelines to ensure that they remain fit to meet their objectives.

This revision of the Rescue & Restructuring guidelines seeks to exclude certain startups and scale ups from the scope of the definition of ‘undertaking in difficulty’ to enable such companies to benefit from other types of State aid, if they are not at risk of bankruptcy.
The revision also seeks to add the steel sector to the material scope of application of the guidelines and to align the guidelines with recent EU case law.
See also the European Commission's press release.

In its first review of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (‘FSR'), the European Commission aims to collect feedback through:

• a public consultation to gather views on specific elements of the implementation and enforcement of the FSR from all interested parties, like companies, law firms, Member States, business associations, individuals or research community and
• a call for evidence seeking more general feedback from all interested parties on the main aims of the FSR review report, its scope and context.

Based on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) State aid Guidelines, Member States can give State aid to certain electro-intensive users to compensate for part of the higher electricity costs due to the EU ETS. The Guidelines’ objective is to minimise carbon leakage, i.e. the risk of relocation to third countries with less ambitious climate policies. The aim of the update is to include additional sectors to reflect an increased carbon leakage risk from higher CO2 prices, based on the same method and observable data.