Work Area: State Aid

An EU court has annulled a European Commission decision forcing the Netherlands to recover state aid from Starbucks, but upheld its decision finding that Luxembourg granted unlawful aid to Fiat Chrysler.

24 September 2019

The European Commission’s decision ordering Ireland to collect up to €13 billion in allegedly unpaid taxes from Apple is “untethered from reality” and violates fundamental rights of defence, counsels to Ireland and Apple have claimed.

18 September 2019

Restoring effective competition to where it would have been in the absence of wrongful state aid “is never going to happen,” a European Commission official has said.

18 September 2019

The European Commission will review and reform state aid rules during the next five-year political mandate, its deputy director-general of state aid has said.

17 September 2019

Apple has claimed the European Commission’s 2017 state aid decision against it stepped outside the enforcer’s remit in an attempt to “harmonise” diverging national tax regimes.

17 September 2019

The European Commission has opened 39 separate investigations into multinational companies that it suspects received illegal state aid from the Belgian government.

16 September 2019

The United Kingdom has appealed against a European Commission decision finding it granted illegal state aid to several multinational companies.

21 June 2019

The European Commission has ordered the UK to recover illegal aid that the country granted to certain multinational companies, as the commission found part of an anti-tax avoidance scheme violated EU state aid rules.

03 April 2019

The EU’s General Court has struck down a European Commission decision finding that Belgium granted unlawful tax relief to to at least 66 companies, but lawyers do not expect the ruling to have much of a bearing on upcoming challenges to more high-profile state aid tax cases.

15 February 2019

The UK’s new state aid regime, which is set to be introduced when the country leaves the European Union, will be “as similar to the European Commission’s current procedural rules as possible”, the UK enforcer has confirmed.

23 January 2019