Guidelines Concerning the State Aids for Environmental Protection and Energy in European Union

The paper “Guidelines concerning the state aids for the environmental protection and energy in the European Union” presents the guidelines of the European Commission in this field. The European Commission sets the conditions on which State aid for environmental protection and energy can be deemed compatible with the domestic market, aiming at three objectives by modernising the controls of State aids. The joint assessment principles underlying the conditions of compatibility with these guidelines aim at strengthening the internal market, promoting more effectiveness in public spending through a better contribution by state aid to objectives of common interest, and exercising greater scrutiny on the incentive effect, on limiting the aid to the minimum, and on the potential negative effects of the aid on competition and trade.