Romania: Changes in the Law on Competition

Abstract

A court decision directly applying Articles 107 and 208 of the TFEU was recently rendered in Romania. By way of the decision, a Romanian national court found that a certain discount granted on the basis of the maximum take-off weight of airplanes by the Timisoara Airport, represents unlawful State aid. However, the Romanian court fell short of fully applying the EU State aid rules as it would have been bound to do under the case law of the European Court of Justice.