Best procedural practices: The European Commission consults on draft best practices Code on State aid proceedings

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC Commission, 11 December 2008, Public consultation on a draft Communication - Code of Best Practices for the conduct of State aid control procedures The Commission is consulting until 28 January 2009 on a forthcoming 'Code' to supplement Regulation 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 88, in compliance with that Regulation and the Treaty, with a view to making state aid control procedures "quicker, more transparent and more predictable". The aim is to make the monitoring of aid projects an activity shared in a cooperative manner between the Commission and the Member States, at least as regards the