Judicial Review of Commission Decisions in State Aid

This chapter focuses on annulment procedures brought against
Commission Decisions under Article 263 TFEU.1 Refl ecting the rapid
evolution of key aspects of this litigation, it illustrates and contextualises
the background and origins of the problems the case law attempts to
address (I) and proposes paths to simplifi cation and rationalisation of the
developments of the past years with regard to standing (II) as well as the
extent of judicial review (III)2 before drawing general conclusions for
the future role of general principles of law (IV) in this area. The chapter
shows the increasing importance of information- related general principles
of law in this fi eld.