EU Commission Staff Working Paper: Commission Staff Working Paper: Inventory of public aid granted to different energy sources
Article from: OGEL 2 (2003), in Digests for Official Reports & Cases
Summary
In December 2002, the Commission released an inventory of member states' aid measures in national energy sectors of the European Union. In theory, state aid is generally prohibited under the Treaty, Art. 87 et seq. Practically, this prohibition is better understood as a restriction of aid to the measures that find a reasonable balance between national and Community interests. The energy sector is one of the sectors that has particularly benefited from this understanding and in the vast majority of cases, aid measures received a benign treatment or were tacitly tolerated by the ...