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DG Comp probes UK tax scheme

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into a UK government tax exemption to multinational companies that could amount to illegal state aid. The European Commission’s...

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EU unilateral conduct cases may be political, experts say

A panel of experts, including former US Department of Justice acting antitrust head Renata Hesse, have lamented the development of unilateral conduct cases in Europe, and voiced concerns that the...

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Tommaso Valletti at GCR Live IP & Antitrust

A transcript of the keynote given by Tommaso Valletti, chief competition economist at European Commission, at GCR Live IP & Antitrust in Brussels on 13 March. It’s a pleasure to be here to talk...

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CMA gets state aid control after Brexit

The Competition and Markets Authority will be given state aid powers after the country leaves the European Union, the UK government has said. The government’s view is that a “full, UK-wide subsidy...

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Engie must pay back €120 million in state aid

The European Commission has ordered Luxembourg to collect €120 million in back taxes from Engie, for the energy company having avoided paying tax on 99% of the profits it earned in the country for...

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Brexit imposition of state aid on CMA worries lawyers

The UK government has said it will apply a “common rulebook” regarding state aid upon Britain’s exit from the European Union, but practitioners are concerned that the UK’s national competition...

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Luxembourg didn’t give McDonald’s illegal state aid, commission finds

The European Commission has found the “double non-taxation” of McDonald’s profits in Luxembourg does not amount to illegal state aid, but rather derives from a difference in US and Luxembourg tax...

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EU has made private enforcement in state aid less attractive, says lawyer

The European Commission and EU courts have made state aid private enforcement “less appealing and less attractive” by ignoring national court judgments, a state aid lawyer has said. Ulrich Soltesz...

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State aid official: we need right toolkit to define selectivity principle

The European Court of Justice’s recent Heitkamp Bauholding ruling shows the importance the courts attach to the selectivity principle in state aid – but the European Commission lacks “the right...

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EU probes Netherlands over Nike tax rulings

The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into whether Dutch tax rulings issued between 2006 and 2015 to global sportswear company Nike amounted to illegal state aid. The...

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UK prepares for Brexit with new state aid rules and personnel

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...

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EU court's state aid ruling unlikely to affect Apple case, lawyers say

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...

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UK must recover illegal state aid

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...

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UK appeals state aid tax decision to General Court

The United Kingdom has appealed against a European Commission decision finding it granted illegal state aid to several multinational companies. The commission’s decision in April centred around the...

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EU opens 39 probes into Belgian tax scheme after court loss

The European Commission has opened 39 separate investigations into multinational companies that it suspects received illegal state aid from the Belgian government. The enforcer’s new probes respond...

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Apple is world’s largest taxpayer, counsel tells General Court

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. The first day of...

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Mosso: DG Comp will “rethink” state aid rules

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. Carles Esteva Mosso said the European...

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State aid recovery cannot fully restore competition, EU official says

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. Leo Flynn, a member of the state...

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Apple state aid decision is “beneath the commission”, Ireland tells EU court

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...

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Starbucks wins and Fiat loses at General Court

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...

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EU reviews Thomas Cook subsidiary bailout

The European Commission is considering whether the German government’s anticipated €380 million bailout of Condor Airlines amounts to unlawful state aid. Germany’s federal government said last week...

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UK Conservative Party plans to scrap EU state aid rules

The UK’s Conservative Party has proposed to scrap EU state aid rules and move the country to a new regime based on World Trade Organisation commitments on restricting harmful subsidies. The party...

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Flybe rescue is state aid, RyanAir alleges

RyanAir has joined calls for the UK government to share details of the “billionaire bailout” reportedly granted to failing airline Flybe, claiming any such loan is illegal state aid. RyanAir’s chief...

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European enforcers step up coronavirus response

Margrethe Vestager has said that the European Commission “will need to do more” to facilitate state aid to countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic, as Italy’s antitrust enforcer is...

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Coronavirus round-up: Cooperate to “feed the nation”, UK government tells...

As competition authorities around the world continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, the EU has announced a temporary framework to streamline state aid to businesses, while the UK and South...

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DG Comp offers “informal” coronavirus guidance

The European Commission is “ready to guide” companies and lawyers on acceptable cooperation agreements during the coronavirus pandemic.   The Directorate-General for Competition yesterday established...

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DG Comp official: state aid amendments will “incentivise” coronavirus research

The European Commission has introduced additional temporary state aid measures so EU member states can more easily fund research, infrastructure and equipment related to potential covid-19...

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Vestager refuses to pause state aid rules

EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has rejected a request from Austrian politicians to suspend European state aid rules during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to Austria’s finance...

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EU foreign subsidy white paper leaves more questions than answers, lawyers say

Competition lawyers have said sweeping proposals to curb anticompetitive foreign subsidies from outside the European Union need more clarification on how the rules will be enforced. In a white paper...

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General Court annuls Apple state aid ruling

The EU General Court has quashed the European Commission’s decision requiring Ireland to collect €13 billion in allegedly unpaid taxes from Apple because the enforcer failed to prove that Ireland...

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