Empowering the Forgotten: Competitors’ Rights and Remedies under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

By Alessandro Carpi, Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Brussels) The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is a new instrument adopted to protect the internal market from the distortive effects of public intervention. While the FSR resembles existing competition and trade tools, it differs notably in how it addresses complaints from competitors. Indeed, the…

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Is the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation compatible with WTO Law?

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - December 2023

By Pierfrancesco Mattiolo, University of Antwerp  The blog post summarizes parts of the article ‘The EU’s New Regime on Foreign Subsidies: Has the Time Come for a Paradigm-Shift?’ published by Professor Csongor Nagy in the Journal of World Trade. The paper is available here. State Capitalist Economies and the WTO It is no mystery that,…

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