Brought to you by the Friedrichh Naumann Foundation Europe & the Lithuanian Free Market Institute

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Kindly register for this event by 02. December at https://forms.gle/JHwDfZ3FQ3HudXFU9

PROGRAMME

12.00 Registration & Light Lunch

12.30 Keynote: The Importance of State Aid Policy and the Problem of its Disablement

Dr. Cento Veljanovski,

Case Associates & Institute for Economic Affairs, UK

12.45 Panel 1: state Aid, Fair Competition and Procedural Challenges

Koen van de Casteele,

Head of unit, State Aid Control, DG COMMP

Carlo Stagnaro,

Institute Bruno Leoni, Italy

Ilya Bruggeman,

Head Single Market, EuroCommerce

Moderator: Rita Raukstè,

Motieka & audzevicius

14.00 Coffee Break

14.15 Panel 2: State Aid and SOEs

Dr. Radomit Tylecot,

EPICENTER/IEA

Krassen Stanchev,

institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria

tbc

European Parliament

Barbara Micková,

ALLRAIL, Czechia

Moderator: Edita Maslauskaite,

Lithuanian Free Market Institute

15.45 Networking Coffee

ABOUT THE EVENT

State aid rules exert a significant impact on the functioning of the internal market and the use of public resources. In 2012 the EU carried out a State aid modernization reform, with the aim of simplifying State aid rules and making them more relevant for promoting sustainable, smart and inclusive growth in a competitive internal market. An evaluation process is now underway to determine whether the rules have actually worked in the intended way and are still fit for purpose.

Some pressing questions evolve around the design of State aid rules post 2020 if they are to deliver on these goals and the general principle that State aid is an exception rather than a standard. Should Member States be allowed to exploit EU policy objectives to justify state aid? What constitutes an appropriate degree of state aid control? How can state aid rules be construed to ensure a level playing field for all and prevent Member States from unwarranted financing of SOEs?

This conference seeks to shed light on these and more questions, while proposing ideas on the revision of the state aid modernization package. Join us in the discussion together with leading national and EU experts, stakeholders, and scholars on competition policy and state aid!