Sentences with phrase «state aid schemes»

Participants will map the situation of state aid instruments being drawn up in Europe presently and share knowledge on building state aid schemes for the games industry as well as experiences in lobbying the issue:

In its judgment of 17 December 2015, Spain a.o. / Commission, the General Court once again annulled a Commission decision dealing with a fiscal State aid scheme on the grounds that the Commission did not sufficiently establish that the scheme in question conferred a selective advantage to its beneficiaries.

Not exact matches

A Central New York man was charged with masterminding a $ 1.6 million scheme to sell high - tech audio earbuds to state employees while charging their insurance carrier for hearing aids.

«Somehow Senator Oppenheimer and her allies in the Legislature have contrived a spending scheme that includes increases in taxes and overall spending, but reduces state aid to schools,» said Cohen.

Nineteen government social protection schemes have been amended and 41 directives by the State Council on AIDS have enabled social protection of the marginalized groups.

Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek, a fellow at the libertarian Hoover Institute, has been making this argument for three decades in academic papers, op - eds and courtrooms, where he is often called to testify in defense of unequal school funding schemes in which rich towns receive disproportionate state aid compared with their high - poverty peers.

Though scholars such as Matthew M. Chingos have asserted that in the grand scheme of things, funding for state tests is a miniscule portion of the total amount spent on K - 12 public education, I wonder how the cost of switching state exams will impact districts that receive disproportionately less in state aid.

On the EU level, there is an agreed - upon framework for how member states should design support schemes on the national level through the 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive as well as the 2014 State Aid Guidelines for Environmental Protection.

Generally speaking, whether or not the original aid scheme constitutes illegal state aid (there are strong indications that it doesn't), the tribunal should have acknowledged that the claimant investor is bound by EU state aid rules and that the satisfaction of the award is conditioned on the Commission's finding on the compatibility of the original scheme with EU state aid rules.

Commonsense also dictates that all economic operators within the internal market must, as diligent businessmen, be aware of the basic requirements of EU state aid rules and that investors should not be able to challenge changes to aid schemes when the host state has failed to notify the scheme accordingly.

Given that the Commission's state aid decision did not include an analysis of the original aid scheme, its decision noted that any compensation awarded to investors «on the basis that Spain has modified the premium economic [i.e. the original] scheme by the notified [i.e. amended] scheme would constitute» state aid.

Represented financial institution in defense of a $ 50 million lender liability and RICO claims for aiding and abetting a Ponzi scheme and obtained dismissals in both the federal district court and state courts.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

On 4 April 2018, HMRC issued «Employment Related Securities Bulletin No 27» confirming that EU State Aid approval for the EMI scheme would expire on 6 April 2018 and that no new approval had yet been obtained.

As stated in Judge Chen's decision, a claim of aiding and abetting fraud requires proof that (1) WAMU had actual knowledge of the illegal activity being committed, and also (2) that the bank substantially assisted the scheme.

So in effect, not only is the current state of criminal practice suffering, but also the future of the profession is in jeopardy barring any fundamental change to the legal aid scheme.

On the state of the legal aid system, he said: «Our principal concern is to ensure, in the public interest, that high quality barristers and solicitors are attracted into publicly - funded work and that schemes are designed which reward talent and efficiency, ensure the vulnerable are not under - represented, while keeping overall costs under control.

(5) In considering what order (if any) should be made under subsection (2) in proceedings in which an independent children's lawyer has been appointed, the court must disregard the fact that the independent children's lawyer is funded under a legal aid scheme or service established under a Commonwealth, State or Territory law or approved by the Attorney ‑ General.

Our Mission is to facilitate the effective resolution of civil disputes through the delivery of efficient and accessible legal aid and mediation services and to effectively manage and administer the State's criminal legal aid schemes.