The notification obligations set out in the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) became applicable about a year ago. High value M&A transactions and government calls for tender now need to be notified to the European Commission before they can be finalized. What lessons can be learned from the application of the FSR to date? Has
Foreign Subsidies Implementing Regulation
European Commission Seeks Stakeholders’ Views on Draft Foreign Subsidies Implementing Regulation
By Vassilis Akritidis, Karel Bourgeois & Karl Stas on
Last year, the European Union legislature adopted the far-reaching Foreign Subsidies Regulation aiming to tackle the distortive effects on EU markets of financial support by non-EU countries to undertakings active in the EU. On 6 February 2023, the European Commission launched the much-anticipated public consultation on a draft Implementing Regulation, including two annexes containing notification…