Guidelines: The General Court rules on the scope ratione temporis of Commission guidelines and on the incentive effect of a regional aid (Fri-El Acerra)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By Decision 2011/110/EU of 15 September 2010, the Commission declared that the State aid amounting to €19.5 million which Italy was planning to implement for Fri-El Acerra was incompatible with the internal market. The notified aid measure consisted of an ad hoc regional aid proposed by the Campania Region for the conversion of a closed thermoelectric power plant into a vegetable oil-fired power plant. In its decision, the Commission found, inter alia, that the planned measure did not comply with the conditions laid down in its Guidelines on national regional aid for 2007-2013 (OJ 2006 C 54, p. 13, hereinafter 'the 2007 Guidelines'). In the Commission's view,