Press Release: Council adopts rules to modernise state aid policy

The Council on 22 July 2013 adopted two regulations for updating the EU rules governing state aid policy: the 'procedural regulation' and the 'enabling regulation'.

These two regulations are part of the ongoing revision of the state aid framework with a view to ensuring that state aid policy contributes to the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and to budgetary consolidation efforts in the member states.