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Remedies in EU Competition Law: Substance, Process and Policy is an unparalleled book developed in collaboration with the College of Europe's Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC). Remedies, designed to correct the negative effects of anti-competitive activity in markets, are central to competition law enforcement and act as a benchmark against which the efficiency of the overall system can be measured. A dearth of coverage which looks at issues, such as mergers, antitrust and State aid, quite a few recent high-profile decisions and an increased focus on areas such as digital markets, have triggered the need for an authoritative and comprehensive guide such as this. ; Peer reviewed

State aid law - A constantly evolving field that continued to be marked by new interpretations and applications in 2014. In this accessible and topical compilation, Phedon Nicolaides casts an critical eye on State aid rules and judgments from 2014. The book represents the first annual review of legal and policy developments of the preceding year and is made up of articles originally published on a weekly basis on Lexxion's StateAidHub.eu.The compilation is conveniently grouped into sixteen thematic chapters covering important issues such as "Selectivity," "Infrastructure Projects," or "Recover

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Economic and Non-economic Activities -- 1.1. Health Insurance Based on Social Solidarity -- 1.2. The Non-economic Nature of Certain IT Services for Higher Education -- 1.3. Public Funding of Infrastructure without State Aid -- 1.4. Water Development -- 2. State Resources -- 2.1. Price Regulation and State Control -- 2.2. State Control without Imputability to the State -- 2.3. The State Acting as a Regulator -- 3. Advantage -- 3.1. Advantage Must be Proven, Not Assumed -- 3.2. Private Investor Principle -- 3.3. Employees' Social Security Contributions and Advantage to Employers -- 3.4. Direct v Indirect Advantages: The Case of Sardinian Airports -- 3.5. Market Economy Operator Principle: The Case of FIH -- 3.6. MEIP-Compliant Bank Recapitalisation: CEC Bank -- 3.7. Market Economy Operator Test -- 3.8. Pari Passu Investments -- 3.9. The Time Horizon of a Private Investor -- 3.10. Exclusive Rights and Legal Monopolies -- 3.11. How to Price a Guarantee -- 4. Taxation -- 4.1. Taxation of Multinational Companies: The Apple Case - A Political Setback for the Commission, but a Victory on Principle -- 4.2. The Commission's primary line of reasoning -- 4.3. The Commission's subsidiary line of reasoning -- 4.4. Turnover Taxes -- 5. Trade -- 5.1. A Real Estate Deal that Does not Affect Intra-EU Trade -- 6. De minimis Aid -- 6.1. De Minimis Aid -- 7. General Block Exemption Regulation -- 7.1. Compliance with the GBER and the SME Criteria Has Become more Difficult -- 8. SMEs -- 8.1. The Concept of SME, Indirect Control by Public Bodies and New Problems for Public Universities and Research Organisations -- 9. Undertakings in Difficulty -- 9.1. Identification of Undertakings in Difficulty -- 10. Article 107(2)(a) TFEU -- 10.1. Public Subsidies to Households Can Be State aid.