Invest Europe

Comment Letter on changes to EU State Aid Temporary Framework

Positions & consultation responses

30 Jun 2020

In the context of a potential extension of the Temporary Framework to start ups, we call EU policymakers to explicitly authorise state aid schemes to businesses backed by venture capital and private equity. We describe why these viable companies are currently at risk of being considered "in difficulty", and hence excluded from the rules, due to the existing skewed state aid definitions.