State aid

Jörgen Hettne

Chapter 10 in Research Handbook on EEA Internal Market Law, 2025, pp 202-224 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: States are always tempted to spend money and/or resources on giving competitive advantages to undertakings within their own economies. The states in the EFTA pillar of the EEA are no different in their temptation in this regard than those in the EU pillar of the EEA. To avoid such distortions within the EU internal market, the EU Treaties present the starting positions that state aid, in the form of any advantages, are to be prohibited. This logic is carried over, by-and-large, to the EEA Agreement. However, given the EEA Agreement has slightly different reach than what the EU Treaties propose, account has to be taken of the nuances that apply to this extension of the internal market. This chapter accordingly analyses both the consistencies as well as the deviations of state aid, as a horizontal flanking policy, within EEA internal market law.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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