Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (Text with EEA relevance)
General Block Exemption Regulation – GBER
- Recitals
CHAPTER I — COMMON PROVISIONS
CHAPTER II — MONITORING
CHAPTER III — SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF AID
SECTION 1 — Regional aid
SECTION 2 — Aid to SMEs
- Article 17 — Investment aid to SMEs
- Article 18 — Aid for consultancy in favour of SMEs
- Article 19 — Aid to SMEs for participation in fairs
- Article 19a — Aid for costs incurred by SMEs participating in community-led local development (CLLD) or European Innovation Partnership for agricultural productivity and sustainability (EIP) Operational Group projects
- Article 19b — Limited amounts of aid to SMEs benefitting from community-led local development (CLLD) or European Innovation Partnership for agricultural productivity and sustainability (EIP) Operational Group projects
SECTION 2a — Aid for European Territorial Cooperation
SECTION 3 — Aid for access to finance for SMEs
SECTION 4 — Aid for research and development and innovation
- Article 25 — Aid for research and development projects
- Article 25a — Aid for projects awarded a Seal of Excellence quality label
- Article 25b — Aid for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions and ERC Proof of Concept actions
- Article 25c — Aid involved in co-funded research and development projects
- Article 25d — Aid for Teaming actions
- Article 26 — Investment aid for research infrastructures
- Article 27 — Aid for innovation clusters
- Article 28 — Innovation aid for SMEs
- Article 29 — Aid for process and organisational innovation
- Article 30 — Aid for research and development in the fishery and aquaculture sector
SECTION 5 — Training aid
SECTION 6 — Aid for disadvantaged workers and for workers with disabilities
- Article 32 — Aid for the recruitment of disadvantaged workers in the form of wage subsidies
- Article 33 — Aid for the employment of workers with disabilities in the form of wage subsidies
- Article 34 — Aid for compensating the additional costs of employing workers with disabilities
- Article 35 — Aid for compensating the costs of assistance provided to disadvantaged workers
SECTION 7 — Aid for environmental protection
- Article 36 — Investment aid enabling undertakings to go beyond Union standards for environmental protection or to increase the level of environmental protection in the absence of Union standards
- Article 36a — Investment aid for publicly accessible recharging or refuelling infrastructure for zero and low emission road vehicles
- Article 37 — Investment aid for early adaptation to future Union standards
- Article 38 — Investment aid for energy efficiency measures
- Article 39 — Investment aid for energy efficiency projects in buildings in the form of financial instruments
- Article 40 — Investment aid for high-efficiency cogeneration
- Article 41 — Investment aid for the promotion of energy from renewable sources
- Article 42 — Operating aid for the promotion of electricity from renewable sources
- Article 43 — Operating aid for the promotion of energy from renewable sources in small scale installations
- Article 44 — Aid in the form of reductions in environmental taxes under Directive 2003/96/EC
- Article 45 — Investment aid for remediation of contaminated sites
- Article 46 — Investment aid for energy efficient district heating and cooling
- Article 47 — Investment aid for waste recycling and re-utilisation
- Article 48 — Investment aid for energy infrastructure
- Article 49 — Aid for environmental studies
SECTION 8 — Aid to make good the damage caused by certain natural disasters
SECTION 9 — Social aid for transport for residents of remote regions
SECTION 10 — Aid for broadband infrastructures
SECTION 11 — Aid for culture and heritage conservation
SECTION 12 — Aid for sport and multifunctional recreational infrastructures
SECTION 13 — Aid for local infrastructures
SECTION 14 — Aid for regional airports
SECTION 15 — Aid for ports
SECTION 16 — Aid involved in financial products supported by the InvestEU Fund
CHAPTER IV — FINAL PROVISIONS
- Final
- ANNEX I — SME DEFINITION
- ANNEX II — INFORMATION REGARDING STATE AID EXEMPT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THIS REGULATION
- ANNEX III — Provisions for the publication of information as laid down in Article 9(1)