The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid

• I Introduction and Foundations


• Overview


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Foundations: The Purpose of Subsidy Control


• II Forms of Governmental Action


• Overview


• 3: Introduction: Governmental Intervention in the Economy and Subsidies


• 4: The Forms of Governmental Action Covered by WTO Subsidy Rules


• 5: The Forms of Governmental Action Covered by EC State Aid Rules


• 6: Forms of Governmental Action: Internal and External Perspectives


• III The Advantage Analysis


• Overview


• 7: The Advantage Analysis: An Introduction


• 8: Economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis


• 9: Non-economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis in the WTO


• 10: Non-economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis in the EC


• 11: Concluding Remarks: Objectives and the Advantage Analysis


• IV Beneficiaries


• Overview


• 12: The Identification of the Beneficiaries


• 13: The Idea and Analysis of Specificity


• V Distortion of Competition


• Overview


• 14: The Distortion of Competition


• Conclusions

Luca Rubini is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law of the University of Birmingham. Previously, he was Lecturer at the University of Leicester (2005-2007) and legal secretary to Advocate General Francis Jacobs at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2002-2003).

Overall, this is a very useful and well-researched book and includes a great deal of useful reference to academic commentary. As an analysis of the difficult subject of the notion of subsidy/State aid, it is to be welcomed as a serious addition to the literature on this ever developing area. Conor Quigley QC, European Law Review ...the book adds to the existing literature on the topic a necessary critical analysis of the fundamental components in the notion of subsidy and State aid. Policymakers, academics and the public in general, familiarised or not with this topic, will find this book of great value for its step-by-step analysis as well as for its policy suggestions Dr Gustavo E. Luengo De Madrid, European Commission, Brussels, Yearbook of European Law Rubini's volume is truly welcome and timely...The text...is entirely readable, even to non-lawyers. Almost throughout the volume, Rubini confines himself to explication and interpretation of the definitions, rules and cases, rather than normative criticism. But he does this in the context of providing a conceptual framework not only for the legitimate purposes of subsidies and state aids, but also for the ultimate objectives of EU and WTO rules designed to limit public bounty and inteference with the market. Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Journal of International Economic Law This book forms a valuable new addition... and an important contribution to WTO and EC law scholarship. It is well-written, well-researched and offers much critical commentary... The usefulness of the book also stems from its clear lay-out Tjarda Van Der Vijver, Netherlands Competition Authority, E.C.L.R. 32 (2) In The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid, Luca Rubini does a masterful job at breaking his subject down and building it back up again, skillfully placing the constituent elements of subsidy and state aid in the legal, economic, and policy contexts in which they operate. While the legal perspective enjoys primacy, Rubini has produced a book

Overall, this is a very useful and well-researched book and includes a great deal of useful reference to academic commentary. As an analysis of the difficult subject of the notion of subsidy/State aid, it is to be welcomed as a serious addition to the literature on this ever developing area. Conor Quigley QC, European Law Review