Open AccessThe EU scheme for the state aid rules in the air transport sector during the Covid-19 crisis
Author(s) -
Dubravka AKSAMOVIC,
Lidija Šimunović
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
juridical tribune
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-0382
pISSN - 2247-7195
DOI - 10.24818/tbj/2022/12/1.04
Subject(s) - member state , european union , member states , legislature , business , competition (biology) , order (exchange) , state (computer science) , covid-19 , international trade , commission , economic policy , political science , finance , law , medicine , ecology , disease , algorithm , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
Paper provides for a systematic overview of the EU scheme for the State aid rulesapplicable to the air transport sector during Covid-19 crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak ishaving a major impact on European air transport sector. In order to help air transportundertakings in Europe to overcome the financial troubles, to preserve jobs, to secure supplyof essential food, medicals or other items, etc., the EU Commission adopted set of legislativemeasures enabling the EU Commission and Member States to authorise hundreds of Stateaid measures, not only to air transport sector, but also to other economic sectors, which weremostly affected by the pandemic. Since in normal circumstances member states State aid tonational undertakings are subject to extremely stringent EU competition law regime, theintention of this paper is, firstly, to analyse to what extent and under what conditions thathas changed during pandemic. Secondly, the intention of the paper is to explore to whatextent and for what purposes different Member States granted State aid to their airlineindustries with special respect to the French, Austrian, Swedish and Croatian State aidpolicy. Lastly, the authors will raise question whether massive capital injection to airtransport companies being made only by certain, wealthier, member states are going, in longterm, to cause negative impacts on the competition in the air transport sector in the internalmarket