Research Handbook on European State Aid Law

Edited by Leigh Hancher, Professor of European Law, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands and Part time Professor of European Union Energy Law, FSR/RSCAS/EUI, Florence, Italy and Professor II, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway and Juan Jorge Piernas López, Senior lecturer, University of Murcia Law School, Spain; Consultant to The World Bank, Washington DC, US, and other public institutions

Contents:

Foreword x
Preface xii
1 State aid control from a political science perspective 1
Michelle Cini
2 The market economy operator principle: an economic role model for
assessing economic advantage 15
Nicole Robins and Laura Puglisi
3 Taxation and State aid 40
Julia Rapp
4 State aid in the energy sector 64
Leigh Hancher and Francesco Maria Salerno
5 State aid and free movement 87
Andrea Biondi
6 State aid and international trade law 103
Luca Rubini
7 State aid and the financial sector: the crisis and beyond 134
Małgorzata Agnieszka Cyndecka
8 Material selectivity outside the field of taxation 153
Andreas Bartosch
9 EU State aid and arbitration 163
Kai Struckmann, Genevra Forwood, Aqeel Kadri, Irina Trichkovska
10 State aid and Brexit 183
George Peretz
11 Social services and State aid: new steps towards a more ‘social Europe’? 206
Delia Ferri
12 The private enforcement of State aid law 226
Fernando Pastor-Merchante
13 State aid procedures 249
Elisabetta Righini and Flavia Tomat
14 State aid to airports and airlines 269
Brian R. Byrne and Ella Adler
15 State aid law beyond the EU 297
Juan Jorge Piernas López
16 Tax rulings and State aid: musings on recovery 314
Dimitrios Kyriazis
17 State aid and EU public procurement: more interactions, fuzzier boundaries 329
Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells

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