State aid & Foreign Subsidies Regulation
We help companies and public authorities to assess economic issues related to State aid control and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). Employing a wide variety of tools, our consultants have worked for various national governments, as well as for a range of companies. We apply the Market Economy Operator Principle to identify potential State aid and assess compatibility with the provisions of Article 107(3) TFEU and provide economic evidence on whether foreign subsidies fulfil the criteria of Articles 3 to 7 of the FSR.
In addition, we have conducted several ex-post evaluations of European State aid policies for the European Commission, addressing inter alia regional and environmental aid, aid for railways and bank bailouts. We have published widely on State aid matters. Several of our directors and staff have further obtained significant experience on the topic while they were employed at the European Commission.
The difference makes the difference in State aid cases
Methods proposed for ex-post evaluations of State aid, 2014-2016
- 18% Regression discontinuity
- 18% Others
- 64% Difference-in-Difference (and variants)
Source: E.CA Economics based on Umweltbundesamt (Hrsg.) (2018)
Engagements
We analysed aid in the context of all important aid Guidelines of the European Commission (R&D aid, Regional investment aid, Regional investment aid, Services of General Economic Interest, SGEI). Our private sector clients include Leipzig Airport, Munich Airport, DB Regio, an international carrier, DB Cargo, Francaise des Jeux, Airbus Helicopter, LG Chem, ProPapier and Deutsche Bahn. Our public sectors include the German Environmental Agency (ex-post evaluation for environmental aid cases) and DG Competition of the European Commission for whom we conducted ex-post evaluation reports on the Regional aid Guidelines, the Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG), the Railway Guidelines and State aid rules for banks in difficulty.
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