Managing the Dilemma of Discretion: The European Commission and the Development of EU State Aid Policy

Doleys, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s10842-012-0140-y

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“…These investigations of the effects of the EU control of state aid and the processes by which the Commission has developed EU policy (Doleys 2013), demonstrate the importance of EU action in this field. They also highlight the extent to which, beyond the work of all but a few authors, EU state aid has been neglected in mainstream EU scholarship.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…16 Determined to perform the role entrusted to it under the treaty, the Commission pursued an alternative approach. It continued to collect intelligencean inventory of state aid, for example, 17 -then from the late 1960s sought to use soft law to steer government action (Blauberger 2008(Blauberger , 2009aDoleys 2013).…”

Section: State Aid Under the Eec Treatymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…16 The Council would reject a proposal for an enabling regulation for a second time in 1972. 17 As Doleys (2013) observes, this data enabled the Commission to establish 'references for a concept that had previously had no clear empirical core '. 18 Soft rules have no legally binding force, but can still influence action.…”

Section: State Aid Under the Eec Treatymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Doleys (2013) argues that the Commission confronts a dilemma of discretion. The grant of formal autonomy gave the Commission broad discretion, but it also made the Commission vulnerable on account of the wide-ranging powers entrusted to it.…”

Section: New Perspectives On Eu State Aid Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The New Political Economy of EU State Aid Policy

Kassim

Lyons

2013

J Ind Compet Trade

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Despite its importance and singularity, the EU's state aid policy has attracted less scholarly attention than other elements of EU competition policy. Introducing the themes addressed by the special issue, this article briefly reviews the development of EU policy and highlights why the control of state aid matters. The Commission's response to the current economic crisis notably in banking and the car industry is a key concern, but the interests of the special issue go far beyond. They include: the role of the European Commission in the development of EU policy, the politics of state aid, and a clash between models of capitalism. The special issue also examines the impact of EU policy. It investigates how EU state aid decisions affect not only industrial policy at the national level (and therefore at the EU level), but the welfare state and territorial relations within federal member states, the external implications of EU action and the strategies pursued by the Commission to limit any potential disadvantage to European firms, and the conflict between the EU's expanding legal order and national.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: State Aid Under the Eec Treatymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State Aid Under the Eec Treatymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: New Perspectives On Eu State Aid Policymentioning

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The New Political Economy of EU State Aid Policy

Kassim

Lyons

2013

J Ind Compet Trade

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“…First, member states with strong industrial interests may exploit the politicization of ECP to pressure the Commission to accommodate industry demands through informal or norm-based governance (Kleine 2018;Moravcsik 2018). Specifically, the governments may invoke industrial interests to question the output legitimacy of the Commission's ECP enforcement and exacerbate the 'dilemma of discretion' the Commission faces in implementing the Treaty provisions on competition regulation (Doleys 2013). Second, policy entrepreneurs in the Commission may exploit the window of opportunity created by politicization to expand supranational authority by introducing novel EU-wide instruments or policies, as the Commission has done through the promulgation of soft law in state aid during the 2000s (Blauberger 2009).…”

Section: First We Hypothesize That the Crisis Will Intensify The Polmentioning

confidence: 99%