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The European Commission has adopted a Communication on State Aid Modernisation (SAM). Not yet available on EUR-Lex, the ’ambitious’ reform package reportedly sets out three main objectives:
- that State aid control should ’support sustainable growth and contribute to improving the quality of public spending by discouraging aid that does not bring real added-value and distorts competition’;
- that State aid enforcement should ’focus more on cases with the biggest impact on the internal market’;
- and that decisions should be delivered more quickly, with rules and concepts explained and clarified.
The Commission foresees the main elements of the reform entering into force by the end of 2013.

Press Release IP/12/458

(Added 2012-05-09)