European Community Law of State Aid

Kelyn Bacon is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, where she has been a tenant since summer 1999. She practices primarily in the field of competition law, and has been instructed in many of the leading UK cases on state aids in the last 6 years (CGNU v Commrs of Customs & Excise, R v Commrs of Inland Revenue, ex p. Professional Contractors' Group Ltd, R v SS for Trade and Industry, ex p. One 2 One and BT3G and R (British Aggregates Association) v HM Treasury). She is currently instructed in Case T-289/03 BUPA v Commission, an application for annulment of a Commission state aid clearance decision, which turns primarily on the criteria for clearance of aid for the performance of public service (SGEI) obligations. In addition to her professional work, Kelyn has lectured widely in the field of competition law and state aids, including 3 years co-teaching the London LLM course in US and EC antitrust law, lectures to the Solicitors' European Group and the Government Legal Service, and seminars in London, Budapest and Zagreb to a variety of audiences including students, government lawyers and solicitors. She has been writing in the field of state aids since 1997 when she wrote her LLM thesis at the EUI on the subject of "State aids and general measures" (supervised by Professor Claus-Dieter Ehlermann). The thesis was published later that year in the 1997 Yearbook of European Law, and since then she has written 3 further articles on state aids, including a chapter in The Law of State Aid in the European Union, eds Biondi, Eeckhout and Flynn (2004).

PART I: GENERAL RULES; 1. Introduction to State aid law and policy; 2. Concept of state aid; 3. Compatibility of aid: general principles; 4. International agreements; PART II: SPECIFIC TYPES OF AID; 5. Environmental aid; 6. Employment and training aid; 7. Rescue and restructuring aid; 8. Research and development aid; 9. Risk-capital; 10. Small and medium-sized enterprises; 11. Agriculture and fisheries; 12. Transport; 13. Media and communications; 14. Energy, coal and steel; 15. Regional aid; PART III: ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES; 16. Supervision by the Commission; 17. Judicial remedies in the European Courts; 18. National Court Proceedings