Events
State aid in Interreg for beginners
State aid
The training is addressed to beginners and will cover the notion of State aid, approaches (especially General Block Exemption Regulation and de minimis) to dealing with State aidboth in Member States and outside, in case of programmes covering third countries. The special focus of the training is the Article 20 and 20a since they are created especiallyfor Interreg programmes. The topic of indirect aid will also be covered.The general aim of the training is to familiarise new staff working in ...
Start On: 03 July 2024 10:00
Location: Online
News
De minimis consultation - 10 January deadline
State aid
As part of the ongoing work around State aid and DG Competition's de minimis consultation, Interact invites programmes and cooperation actors to respond to the consultation.The main proposals published by DG Competition, would change the de minimis regulation from 1 January 2024, and include: Increasing threshold to EUR 275 000 and for road freight transport to EUR 137 500Requring Member States to publish electronically all information on de minimis granted by the Member State on t ...
06 December 22 2 mins read
GBER 2023 Amendment
State aid
The new amendment to General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER 2023 amendment) has come into force. This has an influence on Interreg programmes, which include:Changing thresholdsThe threshold for aid granted under Article 20 is raised to EUR 2.2 million per undertaking, per project.The threshold for aid granted under Article 20a is raised to EUR 22 000 per undertaking, per project.The threshold to report on each individual aid award in Transparency Award Module (TAM) is lowered to EUR 100 00 ...
26 September 23 2 min read
New general de minimis regulation published
State aid
The European Commission has recently published the new general de minimis Regulation (Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 (OJ L, 2023/2831, 15.12.2023) of 13 December 2023 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid(link is external)) which enters into force on 1 January 2024.There are two important changes for Interreg programmes granting de minimis aid:The threshold of aid not to be exceeded was increased from €2 ...
20 December 23 2 min read
