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"The time-limits for the Commission to take a decision on aid projects notified by a Member State are laid down in Council Regulation 659/1999. In most cases the Commission can close the examination of the notified aid project after the preliminary examination, that is without opening a formal investigation. Such decisions must be taken within two months following the receipt of a complete notification. In practice, notifications are frequently incomplete so that the Commission is forced to request additional information before it can take a decision. In order to further reduce this type of unnecessary delay, the Commission has prepared detailed standard notification forms for certain types of aid – regional, training, R[amp]D, etc. – and will continue to do so where appropriate.
When doubts are raised about the compatibility of an aid project with the common market, the Commission must open a formal investigation for which the regulation provides an indicative time-limit of 18 months. The Commission would certainly prefer to be able to reduce this time-limit. However, this seems at present not feasible for different reasons. Firstly, considerable time is needed for translation and publication of the decision, for third parties to submit observations and for the Member States to comment on these observations. Secondly, the cases for which a formal investigation is opened are usually very complex and therefore require a longer period of examination, often also involving meetings with the Member State concerned and modifications to the original project. Nevertheless, the Commission considers that given the absence of any time-limit for the formal investigation procedure before the regulation, the regulation has already brought some progress.
The Commission is also considering new ways of improving the efficiency and speed of state aid procedures. In this regard, the group exemption regulations, which are currently being prepared for aid to SMEs – training aid and
aid – should be mentioned. Once they are in force, Member States will no longer need to notify aid projects complying with the conditions of the exemption regulations but can grant the aid immediately. This will considerably simplify state aid procedures."@en1
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