Report from the EU Commission on the application of the Community rules for state aid to the coal industry in 2001
Article from: OGEL 4 (2003), in Digests for Official Reports & Cases
Summary
The report examines the financial aid granted by France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom to their coal industries in 2001. Such measures may be considered compatible with the proper functioning of the common market only if they help to achieve at least one of the following objectives: to make, in the light of coal prices on international markets, further progress towards economic viability with the aim of achieving degression of aid; to solve the social and regional problems created by total or partial reductions in the activity of production ...