News archive for Research Group for European Law

Paper on centralisation of procurement and competition law (09.12.2014)

Research Fellow Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Albert Sánchez Graells, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Leicester, have just completed a working paper on the new rules on centralisation and occasional procurement under articles 37-39 of Directive 2014/24.

EFTA Court case E-24/13 Casino Admiral AG v Wolfgang Egger: the obligation of transparency and consequences of its breach when awarding service concessions (09.12.2014)

When should the Commission open the formal investigation procedure in a State aid case? (30.11.2014)

Case T-512/11 Ryanair Ltd v European Commission

Halvard Fredriksen

Two new articles from Halvard H. Fredriksen (29.11.2014)

The two articles on the application of the principle of proportionality in EU/EEA-Law by the Nordic national courts and the principle of state liability in EU/EEA-law, thouches upon the core of two of today’s challenges applying EEA-Law

Margrethe Vestager

EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager takes office and makes a statement on tax State aid investigations (07.11.2014)

State aid and football clubs – playing according to the (State aid) rules (22.10.2014)

Guarantees deliberately provided by the director of a public undertaking in disregard of that undertaking’s statutes – the question of imputability under Article 107(1) TFEU with criminal offences in the background (26.09.2014)

The ECJ upholds the partial annulment of the Commission decision approving various measures granted by France to Société Nationale Corse-Méditerranée SA («SNCM») (05.09.2014)

An interesting case of the Market economy Investor Principle and measures of social nature

Order of the EFTA Court in Case E-8/13 Abelia v EFTA Surveillance Authority (02.09.2014)

The Court dismisses action for annulment as inadmissible for lack of legal standing

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BECCLE-seminar with Director Genral of the Norwegian Competition Authority: 'Competition and Regulation' (28.08.2014)

EU Commission adopts a new De Minimis Notice (26.08.2014)

The European Commission approves restructuring aid for LOT Polish Airlines (29.07.2014)

The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA): new transparency requirements in State aid guidelines (17.07.2014)

The Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) applied to a lease agreement and the use of a tender procedure for this purpose (16.07.2014)

No State aid in Norway’s participation in credit facility in favour of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) (09.07.2014)

The test of concomitance and the Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP)

State aid control in the postal sector (26.06.2014)

EU Commission adopts four decisions concerning postal operators.

On the (complex issue of) material selectivity of tax systems under EU/EEA State aid rules (26.06.2014)

The EU Court gives its judgment in Joined cases C-106/09 and C-107/09 and finds the Gibraltar corporate tax system of 2002 incompatible State aid.

Staff Working Document on SOEs (26.06.2014)

Commission Staff Working Document on state aid-compliant financing, restructuring and privatisation of State-owned enterprises (SOE).

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