the EU commission starts a consultation on the aids of State on the airports and the airlines



The EU commission has started a consultation on the new rules in matter of aids of State on the airports and the airlines. Object of the consultation is the new project of review of the communitarian norm in matter that is published by the Commission and that it holds account of the results of the first carried out public consultation in 2011.

One of the main dispositions of the proposed new of the Commission previews that the aids of Been about to the investments in airport infrastructures are allowed if there is a real necessity of transport and if the public financing is necessary in order to guarantee accessibility of a region. The Commission has remembered that the current lines guide leave opened the issue of the intensity of the aid the investments, while the new proposed norms define the maximum intensities of aids allowed according to the dimensions of the airport port of call, to the aim to guarantee the just balance between investments private publics and. The possibility to grant aids - it has specified Brussels - more is elevated for the little ones airports that for those of great dimensions.

Regarding the aids to the operation of the airports, than they are not allowed based on the current lines guides, the new proposed dispositions preview to authorize such aids for a transient period 10-year-old, to determined conditions, the aim to leave to the airports the time necessary in order to adapt their model of business. The proposal previews that the aid to the operation diminishes in the course of this period.

Sul forehead of the aids granted to the airlines in order to start a broken new aerial, the Commission previews to allow them on condition that they are limited in the time.

Motivating these proposals, the vice president of the EU commission, Joaquín Almunia, in charge of politics of the competition, has explained that the objective "is that to guarantee that the money of the contributors is spold wisely, where is indeed necessary. The next guidelines on the aids of State - it has found - will be a key element in order to guarantee the success and the competitiveness of the European aerial industry, preserving the loyal competition to prescind from the "model of business" of the various operators, is they national airlines or carriers low-cost, great airports hub or regional airports".