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The Commission’s Notice on State Aid and the Tax Ruling Cases: Clarification or Justification?
July 15, 2016
On 19 May 2016, the Commission released its Notice on the notion of state aid. The aim of this Notice is to provide legal certainty by clarifying the key concepts relating to the notion of state aid. Ironically, many argue that the Commission has stretched this notion in the tax ruling cases, harming the same legal certainty that the Commission seeks to propagate.
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