The EU Commission publishes its new regional State aid guidelines and launches a public consultation

Draft New RDI Framework* On Monday, 19 April 2021, the European Commission published the new Regional Aid Guidelines for the period 2022-2027. They can be accessed at: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/regional_aid/RAG_2021_adopted_communication.zip Introduction On 8 April 2021, the European Commission published the text of the draft new RDI Framework and launched public consultation. [1] The draft RDI Framework is accompanied by an Explanatory Note which summarises the findings of the fitness check evaluation of several Commission guidelines, including those on RDI. [2] The fitness check found that on the whole the RDI rules were fit for purpose and that stakeholders wanted the rules to remain stable after the “steep learning curve” following the State Aid Modernisation