International Subsidies

Green and digital transformation as well as the adjustment of global supply chains as a result of geopolitical risks have led to a renaissance of industrial and location policies. In this context, subsidies take centre stage as a key instrument of government control. The new global subsidy race is emphasising national and international subsidy regulations. National legal frameworks, including foreign trade law, as well as bilateral and multilateral agreements, which increasingly include specific provisions on subsidies or state aid, characterise legal practice. Moreover, despite the need for reform, WTO subsidy law remains an authoritative multilateral regulatory framework. However, as further development of WTO law continues to stagnate, other instruments have recently become more important.

The new Handbook
on "International Subsidies" addresses the enormous practical importance of the topic. It explains the core provisions of the various regulations, systematises the findings for practical interpretation and thus makes the heterogeneous legal framework in the field of international state aid, subsidy and foreign trade law comprehensible and manageable.

Main topics
In particular, the following issues are analysed:
• National legislation on state aid and subsidies of important industrialized countries
• Regional integration areas: AfCFTA, ASEAN, EU, EEA, Mercosur, RCEP, USMCA
• EU Foreign Subsidies regulation, including the implementing regulation
• EU basic anti-subsidy regulation
• WTO subsidy law
• Intersection of state aid and investment protection law
• Subsidy law approaches and chapters in free trade agreements

Highest expertise
The authors, who have been familiar with the subject matter for a long time and are both academics and legal practitioners, present the various legal frameworks of subsidy and state aid legislation in a practice-orientated manner. This makes it possible to deal confidently with the respective international and national regimes as well as the legal acts of the European Union.

Dr. Afolabi Adekemi, LL.M. | Josephine Alsing | Bjørnar Alterskjær | Dr. Andrés Eduardo Alvarado Garzón, LL.M. | Dipl.-Jur. Romy Backenstraß | Dr. Johannes Barbist, M.A. | Dr. Michael Bauer | Bianca Böhme, LL.M. | Manuel Braga Monteiro, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bröhmer | Prof. Dr. Pedro-José Bueso Guillén, LL.M. Eur. | Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Vlatka Butorac Malnar, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Hyeshin Cho | Arnoud de Best | Prof. Dr. Wout de Cock | Eddy de Smijter | Dr. Caspar Ebrecht | Prof. Dr. Frank Emmert, LL.M., FCIArb | Gregory Felder, MLaw | Prof. Dr. Marcilio Toscano Franca-Filho | Shaun Wei Wen Fu, LL.M. | Adolfo Guarín Duque | Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Angshuman Hazarika, LL.M. | Dr. Nicolas Jung | Prof. Dr. Sufian Jusoh | Petr Kadlec | Jakub Kałuzny | Dr. Clemens Kerle | Bruce Kilpatrick | Erik Kjær-Hansen | Filip Krenek | Dr. Regina Kröll | Dr. Henrique Lenon | Marijana Liszt, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Andrew Mitchell, LL.M. | Dipl.-Wirtschaftsjur. Matthias Motzkus, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Till Müller-Ibold | Henrik Nordling | Laura Olza-Moreno | Dr. Muhammad Faliq Razak | Dr. Andreas Reindl | Dr. Philipp Reinhold | Christina M. Renner, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Christian Gustavo Rojas Calderón | Dr. Sophía Romero Rodríguez | Steve Ross | Alberto Saavedra | Stefan Schelhaas, LL.M. | Melpomeni Skriapa | Soňa Stará, LLM.Eur. | Dr. Abdul Hasib Suenu | Prof. Dr. Alexandr Svetlicinii | Agata Szeliga | Androniki Tatsi | Ramona Tax | Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte | Prof. Dr. Alisher Umirdinov, LL.M. | Greetje van Heezik | Dr. Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Thomas Weck, LL.M., B.A. | Prof. Dr. Yueming Yan | Prof. Dr. Philipp Zurkinden.