Programme

7 The Law and Economics of State Aid and other Anti-Competitive State Interventions
Jacques DERENNE - Hogan Lovells LLP
David SPECTOR - Paris School of Economics
  • Session 1 : Friday 18 February 2011
  • Session 2 : Friday 25 February 2011
  • Session 3 : Friday 4 March 2011
fleche Outline
  1. Brief Historical and Economic Background on State Aid Control
  2. Harmful economic effects of State Aid
  3. Beneficial effects of State Aid
  4. The Notion of State Aid - Legal Concept v Economic Theory
  5. Contributions and Limits of Economic Theory to the Notion of State Aid
  6. Compatibility Assessment of State Aid
  7. A Selection of Horizontal Compatible Aid
  8. State Aid Procedure - The Administrative Procedure before the European Commission
  9. State Aid Procedure - The Role of National Courts
  10. Judicial Review of State Aid Decisions by the European Courts
  11. State Aid and the Financial Crisis

fleche Organization

The course is entirely taught in English, with 15 in-class hours.
The course takes place over a periode of three weeks, with three weekly lectures on Friday afternoons from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
A lunch is provided at 12:30 p.m. prior to the beginning of each class.
Participants will receive a documentation pack.


fleche Tuition fee

The fee for the course is €500.
In-house lawyers and civil servants are eligible for a special reduced fee of €400.


fleche Venue

The course will take place on the premises of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), Rue Ravenstein 4, 1000 Brussels


fleche Registration