Social Services of General Interest and the State Aid Rules

Abstract

The present chapter examines the impact of the State aid rules on the organisation and provision of SSGIs. The topic is approached as a test to the thesis according to which the Union, its institutions and its law tend to favour economic objectives over social policy aims, thus producing a social deficit. The chapter addresses two main questions: do the State aid rules endanger the provision of SSGIs? Should issues concerning social services be dealt with at Union level or at national level, and which institutions are better equipped to deal with them? To explore these questions, the chapter examines the following issues: the applicable texts and the institutions in charge of interpreting and applying them; the notion of economic activity; the per se exception concerning aid of a social nature granted to individual consumers and the social dimensions of other exceptions; and the Altmark case law, the Altmark package and its reform. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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