Category Archives: New UK subsidy control regime

Subsidy Control Bill – Illustrative Guidance and Regulations (by Angelica Hymers and Alex Kynoch of Browne Jacobson)

It has been a turbulent couple of years for those involved in subsidy control, and 2022 will be equally challenging. The Subsidy Control Bill (Bill) will take effect in 2022. It will form the backbone of the UK’s new subsidy … Continue reading

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Sweet failure: British Sugar fails to persuade the High Court that the sugar advance tariff quota breaches Article 10 of the Protocol or the subsidy control provisions of the TCA

The judgment of Foxton J in R(British Sugar) v Secretary of State for International Trade[2022] EWHC 393 (Admin) is the first judicial consideration of the impact of Article 10 of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol, which (as discussed here) applies EU … Continue reading

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The Subsidy Control Bill and levelling up: a complex and murky picture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               One concern that has been widely expressed during the passage of the Subsidy Control Bill through Parliament is its relationship with the current government’s “levelling-up” agenda.  Although that agenda is somewhat inchoate (although it may become a bit … Continue reading

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UK State Aid Law Association – Seminars on the Subsidy Control Bill

The UK State Aid Law Association invites you to attend two seminars on the Subsidy Control Bill currently before Parliament. The first seminar will be hosted at Shearman & Sterling offices in London on Wednesday, 24 November between 6:30–7:30 pm … Continue reading

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Resources on the Subsidy Control Bill

As the Subsidy Control Bill is now before Parliament, I thought it would be useful to collect together resources on the Bill, debates on it, and articles being written about it. I will also try to summarise key issues that … Continue reading

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The Subsidy Control Bill 2021: key questions for Parliament to consider (by Jonathan Branton and Alexander Rose, DWF)

Note: this article by Jonathan and Alex is particularly timely as the Subsidy Control Bill is getting its Second Reading in the House of Commons today (22 September).   The Subsidy Control Bill will have its second reading in Parliament … Continue reading

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The UK’s Proposed Revisions to Article 10 of the Northern Ireland Protocol: a Sensible Basis for Negotiation

This post, written by George Peretz Q.C. of Monckton Chambers and James Webber of Shearman & Sterling, assesses the UK’s proposed revisions to Article 10 of the NI Protocol. Introduction Subject to the qualification that it applies only to “measures which affect that … Continue reading

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THE SUBSIDY CONTROL BILL AND DEVOLUTION: A BALANCED REGIME?

The Subsidy Control Bill introduced to Parliament at the end of June applies across the United Kingdom.  It has significant implications for the devolved administrations. The provisions of the Bill are summarised here.  But, in essence, the scheme of the … Continue reading

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The Subsidy Control Bill: a short summary

NOTE: the following blog is an adapted version of an earlier post on https://eurelationslaw.com/. Subscribers who have their own comments or thoughts on the Bill are invited either to comment below or to send more detailed thoughts, amounting to a … Continue reading

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Subsidy Control after Brexit – a practitioner’s perspective

By Alex Kynoch and Angelica Hymers (This article was first published in Local Government Lawyer, www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk.) Back in late 2020, we waited expectantly for news of what the rules on state aid were going to be when the Brexit transition … Continue reading

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