Unlimited Liability of State-owned Banks under the EC-Rules of State Aids /

The applicability of EC law of state aids to the state`s unlimited liability for Savings Banks and "Landesbanken" is controversial. Legal and political discussions following the Maastricht-II-Treaty tend to assume that liabilities have to be qualified as state aids. However, as the liabili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Immenga, Ulrich
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rudo, Joachim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Statement of issue
  • Institutional burden and guarantor liability as organizational concept of commercially active public institutions
  • Applicability of Article 92 EC Treaty
  • Institutional burden and guarantor liability as a subsidy?
  • Institutional burden and guarantor liability as subsidies by virtue of refinancing advantages?
  • Actual contributions of capital as a subsidy?
  • Special features of the banking sector: Compatibility of subsidization "to relieve a major economic disturbance"(Art.92,3(C)
  • Distortion of competition and impairment of international trade.-