TAIEX- REGIO

Multicountry Workshop on State

aid Maps in the Transport Sector
organised in co-operation with
The Romanian Competition Council (Romania)

30-31 October 2018

Venue:
Romanian Competition Council Headquarters
1st Presei Libere Square, D1 Building, 2nd floor Conference room, sector 1, Bucharest

Beneficiary:
The Romanian Competition Council (Romania)

REGIO 67611

Organised and funded by the

Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission

Aim of the Workshop:

The aim of the workshop is twofold:
 on the one hand, to be a forum for a fruitful discussion on the application of
State aid rules in the Transport sector (Air, Aviation, Rail, Road).
  on the other hand, the objective is to update and improve as well as amend
the State aid maps in Transport, co-constructed in November 2017 in the
frame of the REGIO Communities of Practitioners

Participants
From Romania:
 Horatiu Pasca - Competition Council
 Sorina Palan - Competition Council
 Alis Barbulescu - Competition Council
 Raluca Parlog - Competition Council
 Marilena Buna-ziua - Competition Council
 Angelica Haliciu - Competition Council
 Catalin Costache – Ministry of Transport
 Claudiu Staicu - Ministry of Transport
 Roxana Ilie - Ministry of Transport
 Ioana Sarsama - Ministry of Transport
 Ionut Marcu - Ministry of Transport
 Florin Stoica - Ministry of Transport
 Elena Crangasu - Ministry for Regional Development and Public
Administration
 Sava Chiser - Ministry for Regional Development and Public Administration
 Amalia Tiplic - Ministry for Regional Development and Public Administration
 Laurentiu Caprian - Ministry for Regional Development and Public
Administration
 Adina Florea - Ministry for Regional Development and Public Administration
 Mariana Svestun – Ministry of European Funds
 Adrian Margarit - Ministry of European Funds
 Victor Patrulescu - Ministry of European Funds
From abroad:
 Udo Woll (DE) Deutsche Bahn AG
 Adél Schropefer (DE) DLR – German Aerospace Center, Institute of Air
Transport and Airport Research
 Stefan Jarecki (PL) Ministry of Economic Development
 Roman Gąszczyk (PL) Ministry of Economic Development
 Valentin Ignatov (BG) Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and
Communications
 Nikolay Dechev (BG) Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and
Communications
 Antanas Sabanas, Joint Secretariat | Interreg South Baltic Programme 2014 –
2020
 Jenny Billowie, Joint Secretariat | Interreg South Baltic Programme 2014 –
2020
 Jovita Ramanauskaitė (LT) Central Project Management Agency
 Inga MACIJAUSKIENE (LT) Central Project Management Agency
 Aleksejs Čekalovs (LV) Latvian Ministry of Finance
 Jana Rudolf Mesaric (SI) Ministry of finance
  CsillaBartos (HU) Ministry of Innovation and Technology
Moderated by:
 Marcelline Bonneau
Regio Communities of Practitioners’ Manager
 Day 0: Monday 29 October 2018
Venue: TBC
19.30 Informal dinner

Day 1: Tuesday 30 October 2018

Venue: Piata Presei Libere, no. 1, corp D1, Sector 1, 013701, Bucharest.
8:30 – 9:00 Registration of participants

09:00 – 09:10 Official welcome, xxx

09:10 – 09:20 Presentation of the aim of this workshop, agenda for the next two days, Horatiu
Pasca and Sorina Palan
09:20 – 09:30 Introduction to the workshop within the frame of the DG REGIO Communities of
Practitioners, Marcelline Bonneau
09:30 – 10:00 Tour de table and exectations from participants, Marcelline Bonneau
10:00 – 11:00 State Aid and Transport Sector: Exchange on the issues faced by the participants
to the workshop, Romania and other partners. Presentations followed by Q&A

Transversal presentations: State Aid in Transport…

 Aleksejs Cekalovs : Methodological questions arising when we are
auditing project under Regulation 1370/2007.
Topic #1: State aid the Road sector
 Horatiu Pasca, Raluca Parlog, Marilena Buna-ziua (RO): Public
service contracts (based on the draft contract at national level)
 …
Topic #2: State aid the Rail sector
 Udo Woll : Commission decisions and European Courts´ judgments
on State aid in the Railway Sector
 …
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Topic #3: State aid the Maritime sector
 Antanas Sabanas: presentation about State Aid to maritime ports
(based on case study of SB Programme).

Topic #4: State aid the Aviation sector

 Marilena Buna-ziua, Angelica Haliciu (RO): Good Practice of a
individual SGEI notified aid
 Adél Schroepfer: possibilities for state aid to regional airports.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00 Improving the maps: Identifying cases addressing your two questions: Does the
measure include State Aid? – Yes; - No; How to make State Aid compatible? –
Regulation 1370/2007; GBER, Regional aid guidance, etc.
o Based on the morning’s presentations
o Based open cases collected upfront from all the participants (following
the maps I will have updated from your inputs of the past few months…)
16:00 – 17:45 Identifying best practices to avoid SA (Jana Rudolf-Meyer’s proposal)
17:45 – 18:00 Recapping on the day: important issues and what to take further, moderated
by Marcelline Bonneau
18:00 – 20:00 Break
20:00 Informal dinner
 Day 2: Wednesday 31 October 2018
Venue: Piata Presei Libere, no. 1, corp D1, Sector 1, 013701, Bucharest.
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and coffee

09:00 – 09:10 Presentation of the work of the second day, Horatiu Pasca
09:10 – 09:20 Feedback from the first day, Marcelline Bonneau
09:20 – 09:40 Tour de table on participants’ feedbacks and expectation for the second day
Moderated by Marcelline Bonneau
09:40 – 12:30 Co-creating a checklist for projects under 1370/2007 (Aleksejs Cekalovs’s
proposal) moderated by Marcelline Bonneau
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Peer coaching: identifying remaining questions from the participants and
addressing them (Horatiu Pasca’s and Sorina Palan’s proposal)
15:30 – 16:00 Finalisation of the Map and next steps, moderated by Marcelline Bonneau
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