Ridiculous Rhetoric About State Aid ... from the Experts on Using Illegal Aid
The ongoing discussion about trying to block the prosumer support in the final law due to "state aid" issues is about an hypocritical as it gets. PO spokesmen raised this earlier and it appears that the President of Poland may not take the bait. A good decision, since the entire Polish support system has been operating illegally for nine years and the Government has known this for at least three years now. Similarly, we have been seeing a big bluff on whether the new law must be notified to Brussels. Everyone privately knows that it must be notified, reviewed and approved. For several reasons, it does not meet the block grant exemption from notification. Most obviously, it continues support in the form of Green Certificates which the European Commission has advised informally to UOKiK are state aid. Aid up to 2017 must be levelized by technology and certainly all of the technologies including in the Polish National Action Plan for 2020 will have to be included. Other ...