Abstract

The EU State aid rules are part of the Energy Community acquis. During the last years, most of the Contracting Parties have adopted a national State aid law and established national Monitoring Authorities. Limited research has been conducted to assess the degree of enforcement of State aid law in the Contracting Parties in the energy sector. By analyzing the decisions adopted by the State Aid Monitoring Authorities of the Contracting Parties and a number of international reports on this issue, this paper aims at filling this gap in the literature. The paper concludes that the enforcement ...