State aid rules: new categories of State aid

The European Parliament adopted by 575 votes to 35, with 57 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1588 of 13 July 2015 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.

Parliament approved the Commission proposal without amendments.

This proposal to amend the EU State aid Enabling Regulation aims to improve the interplay of those EU funding programmes with State aid rules. It will enable the Commission to make targeted modifications to the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) so that nationally managed funds and centrally managed EU funds can be combined as smoothly as possible, without distorting competition in the Single market.