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Contents
  1. Page 1: Article 1
  2. Page 2: Article 2 to Article 3
  3. Page 3: Article 4 to Article 21a
  4. Page 4: Article 22 to Article 40
  5. Page 5: Article 41 to Article 56
  6. Page 6: Article 56a to Article 59

Page 1 of 6: Article 1.

  1. 001 Article 1

    Article 1 Scope 1. This Regulation shall apply to the following categories of aid: (a) regional aid; (b) aid to SMEs in the form of investment aid, operating aid and SMEs' access to finance; (c) aid for environmental protection; (d) aid for research and development and innovation; (e) training aid; (f) recruitment and employment aid for disadvantaged workers and workers with disabilities; (g) aid to make good the damage caused by certain natural disasters; (h) social aid for transport for residents of remote regions; (i) aid for broadband infrastructures; (j) aid for culture and heritage conservation; (k) aid for sport and multifunctional recreational infrastructure; (l) aid for local infrastructures; (m) aid for regional airports; (n) aid for ports; (o) aid for European Territorial Cooperation projects; and (p) aid involved in financial products supported by the InvestEU Fund. 2. This Regulation shall not apply to: (a) schemes under Sections 1 (with the exception of Article 15), 2 (with the exception of Articles 19c and 19d), 3, 4, 7 (with the exception of Article 44) and 10 of Chapter III of this Regulation, if the average annual State aid budget per Member State exceeds EUR 150 million, from 6 months after their entry into force, as well as aid implemented in the form of financial products under Section 16 of Chapter III, if the average annual State aid budget per Member State exceeds EUR 200 million, from 6 months after their entry into force. For aid under Section 16 of Chapter III of this Regulation, only contributions by a Member State to the Member State compartment of the EU guarantee, referred to in Article 9(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2021/523 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which are earmarked for a specific financial product shall be taken into account for assessing whether the average annual State aid budget of that Member State related to the financial product exceeds EUR 200 million. The Commission may decide that this Regulation shall continue to apply for a longer period to any of these aid schemes after having assessed the relevant evaluation plan notified by the Member State to the Commission, within 20 working days from the scheme’s entry into force. Where the Commission has already extended the application of this Regulation beyond the initial 6 months as regards such schemes, Member States may decide to extend those schemes until the end of the period of application of this Regulation, provided that the Member State concerned has submitted an evaluation report in line with the evaluation plan approved by the Commission; (b) any alterations of schemes referred to in Article 1(2)(a), other than modifications which cannot affect the compatibility of the aid scheme under this Regulation or cannot significantly affect the content of the approved evaluation plan; (c) aid to export-related activities towards third countries or Member States, namely aid directly linked to the quantities exported, to the establishment and operation of a distribution network or to other current costs linked to the export activity; (d) aid contingent upon the use of domestic over imported goods. 3. This Regulation shall not apply to: (a) aid granted in the fishery and aquaculture sector, within the scope of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with the exception of: training aid; aid for SMEs’ access to finance; aid in the field of research and development; innovation aid for SMEs; aid for disadvantaged workers and workers with disabilities; regional investment aid in outermost regions; regional operating aid schemes; aid for community-led local development (‘CLLD’) projects; aid to European Territorial Cooperation projects; as of 1 July 2023, aid in the form of reductions in environmental taxes under Article 15(1), point (f), and Article 15(3) of Council Directive 2003/96/EC; aid involved in financial products supported by the InvestEU Fund, except for operations listed in Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 717/2014; for aid to microenterprises in the form of public interventions concerning the supply of electricity, gas or heat referred to in Article 19c; for aid to SMEs in the form of temporary public interventions concerning the supply of electricity, gas or heat produced from natural gas or electricity to mitigate the impact of price increases following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine referred to in Article 19d; (b) aid granted in the primary agricultural production sector, with the exception of regional investment aid in outermost regions, regional operating aid schemes, aid for consultancy in favour of SMEs, risk finance aid, aid for research and development, innovation aid for SMEs, environmental aid, training aid, aid for disadvantaged workers and workers with disabilities, aid to community-led local development (CLLD) projects, aid to European Territorial Cooperation projects, aid involved in financial products supported by the InvestEU Fund, aid to microenterprises in the form of public interventions concerning the supply of electricity, gas or heat as referred to in Article 19c and aid to SMEs in the form of temporary public interventions concerning the supply of electricity, gas or heat produced from natural gas or electricity to mitigate the impact of price increases following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine as referred to in Article 19d; (c) aid granted in the sector of processing and marketing of agricultural products, in the following cases: (i) where the amount of the aid is fixed on the basis of the price or quantity of such products purchased from primary producers or put on the market by the undertakings concerned; (ii) where the aid is conditional on being partly or entirely passed on to primary producers; (d) aid to facilitate the closure of uncompetitive coal mines, as covered by Council Decision 2010/787/EU; (e) the categories of regional aid referred to in Article 13. Where an undertaking is active in the excluded sectors as referred to in points (a), (b) or (c) of the first subparagraph and in sectors which fall within the scope of this Regulation, this Regulation applies to aid granted in respect of the latter sectors or activities, provided that Member States ensure by appropriate means, such as separation of activities or distinction of costs, that the activities in the excluded sectors do not benefit from the aid granted in accordance with this Regulation. 4. This Regulation shall not apply to: (a) aid schemes which do not explicitly exclude the payment of individual aid in favour of an undertaking which is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid granted by the same Member State illegal and incompatible with the internal market, with the exception of aid schemes to make good the damage caused by certain natural disasters and aid schemes covered by Article 19b, Section 2a as well as Section 16 of Chapter III; (b) ad hoc aid in favour of an undertaking as referred to in point (a); (c) aid to undertakings in difficulty, with the exception of aid schemes to make good the damage caused by certain natural disasters, start-up aid schemes, regional operating aid schemes, aid schemes covered by Article 19b, aid to SMEs under Article 56f and aid to financial intermediaries under Articles 16, 21, 22 and 39 as well as Section 16 of Chapter III, provided undertakings in difficulty are not treated more favourably than other undertakings. However, this Regulation shall apply, by derogation, to undertakings which were not in difficulty on 31 December 2019 but became undertakings in difficulty during the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. 5. This Regulation shall not apply to State aid measures, which entail, by themselves, by the conditions attached to them or by their financing method a non-severable violation of Union law, in particular: (a) aid measures where the grant of aid is subject to the obligation for the beneficiary to have its headquarters in the relevant Member State or to be predominantly established in that Member State; However, the requirement to have an establishment or branch in the aid granting Member State at the moment of payment of the aid is allowed. (b) aid measures where the grant of aid is subject to the obligation for the beneficiary to use nationally produced goods or national services; (c) aid measures restricting the possibility for the beneficiaries to exploit the research, development and innovation results in other Member States. 6. Chapter III, Section 7, of this Regulation shall not apply to State aid measures for production of nuclear energy.

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