State aids (notion): The Commission publishes a study in relation to the updating of the reference rates of interest applied in State aid control in the EU

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 7 January, the Commission put a study online which it had commissioned from Deloitte & Touche GmbH relating to the discounting of the reference interest rates applied in the context of the of State aid control in the EU. In order for the Commission to be able to carry out effective State aid control, an reference interest rate system had to be developed in practice. The such a reference rate is necessary in three situations: for determining whether a government loan can be considered to be State aid (presumably