Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1163/18760104-01102005 |
| Title (Primary) | State aid dispute on Germany’s support for renewables. Is the commission on the right course? |
| Author | Gawel, E.; Strunz, S. |
| Source Titel | Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law |
| Year | 2014 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Page From | 137 |
| Page To | 150 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | competition; European Commission; feed-in tariff; Germany; internal market; Renewable Energy Sources Act; state aid |
| UFZ wide themes | RU6; |
| Abstract | The Commission is concerned that renewable support schemes may distort competition and trade between Member States. Thus, the Commission has recently proposed guidelines on how to make renewable support schemes compliant with state aid rules. Moreover, it has opened in-depth proceedings to investigate whether the German support scheme counts as inappropriate state aid in the meaning of Article 107 (1) tfeu. The Commission believes that, in particular, Germany’s concessions to energy-intensive industries, which pay only reduced levies to finance the renewables scheme, are distortive. This paper reviews the Commission’s arguments in this case as well as the proposed guidelines on state aid. It concludes that Germany’s support scheme does not constitute inappropriate state aid and that the Commission’s guidelines should be open to further discussion. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=15187 |
| Gawel, E., Strunz, S. (2014): State aid dispute on Germany’s support for renewables. Is the commission on the right course? JEEPL 11 (2), 137 - 150 10.1163/18760104-01102005 |
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