Brexit and State Aid Control: Four Quartets.

Abstract

The UK Government has recently given its clearest indication yet that a domestic State aid regulatory regime, would have to be in place at the end of the Brexit process. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been designated as domestic State aid regulator. This article reassesses the importance of the provisions on state aid within the EU legal order, and reviews subsidies control in international trade law. It further examines the challenges and opportunities presented by a process of decentralization of state aid control in the context of the negotiations for a future EU-UK trade agreement.

Keywords: state aid, brexit