Horizontal state aid: application of Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU. Codification

The European Parliament adopted by 636 votes to 52, with 11 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to certain categories of horizontal state aid (codified text).

Parliament approved, without amendment, the Commission proposal as adapted to the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.

According to the Consultative Working Party, the proposal in question contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts without any change in their substance.