Assessing the use of the state aid Covid temporary framework with regard to the healthcare and media sector

Giosa, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7509-9605 (2023) Assessing the use of the state aid Covid temporary framework with regard to the healthcare and media sector. Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 14 (5). pp. 274-289. ISSN 2041-7772 doi: 10.1093/jeclap/lpad030

Abstract/Summary

Key Points: -Although Covid-19 was a sanitary crisis, the vast majority of aid schemes under the State Aid Temporary Framework were granted to restore the liquidity of companies affected by Covid-19. -Only few state aid measures regarded public health issues and these dealt mainly with coronavirus-related research and development activities, as well as with the production of Covid-19-related products. -Only six state aid schemes contributed to a real investment in quality public health services with the potential to boost the national health systems also after the pandemic. -It appears that some governments which granted aid schemes to the media sector under the State Aid Temporary Framework used this soft law instrument as a ‘smokescreen’ to restore the public trust in them and serve particular political interests.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/121869
Identification Number/DOI	10.1093/jeclap/lpad030
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Oxford University Press
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