Piernas Lopez, Juan Jorge --- "Enforcement of State aid law at the national level: recent trends in Spain" [2020] ELECD 354; in Parcu, L. Pier; Monti, Giorgio; Botta, Marco (eds), "EU State Aid Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 218

Book Title: EU State Aid Law

Editor(s): Parcu, L. Pier; Monti, Giorgio; Botta, Marco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Enforcement of State aid law at the national level: recent trends in Spain

Author(s): Piernas López, Juan Jorge

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

This chapter aims to identify a number of trends in the enforcement of the Commission Decisions ordering the recovery of State aid in Spain. Three main trends are identified in the chapter: (1) the emergence of significant uncertainty in relation to the recovery of State aid, particularly in some relevant cases involving large amounts of aid to be recovered; (2) the increasing observance by the Spanish judiciary, and particularly by the Supreme Court, of the Commission’s notice on the enforcement of State aid law by national courts; (3) the adoption of specific legal provisions to recover fiscal State aid. Spain is thus a useful case study to identify a number of more general trends in the enforcement of State aid at the national level.