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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a significant impact on every aspect of our lives.  On 17 March 2020, the Luxembourg government has declared a three-month duration of state of emergency for Luxembourg to minimise the spread of the virus, to mitigate its effects and to protect those most vulnerable in society. 

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14 April 2021
COV­ID-19: European Com­mis­sion ap­proves Finnish aid for Finavia
On 17 March 2021, the Com­mis­sion ap­proved a Finnish scheme to sup­port air­port op­er­at­or “Finavia” in the con­text of the coronavir­us crisis. Like many oth­er air­port op­er­at­ors, Finavia suffered a sig­ni­fic­ant...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
24 February 2021
COV­ID and ViCo: EPO re­fer­ral to the En­larged Board of Ap­peal
In the last year, the COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic has res­ul­ted in a large pro­por­tion of the leg­al sec­tor trans­ition­ing to a ‘work from home’ ar­range­ment, with meet­ings tak­ing place re­motely. Non-es­sen­tial travel...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
03 February 2021
Ex­ten­sion of the Tem­por­ary Frame­work on state aid and COV­ID-19
The Tem­por­ary Frame­work ad­op­ted by the European Com­mis­sion in March 2020 is based on Art­icle 107(3)(b) TFEU  to rem­edy a ser­i­ous dis­turb­ance across the EU eco­nomy. Only com­pan­ies that en­countered dif­fi­culties...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
07 December 2020
End of European Com­mis­sion in-depth in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to Span­ish aid to Air...
On 17 Novem­ber 2020, the European Com­mis­sion de­cided to close its in-depth in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to a Span­ish aid in fa­vour of the re­gion­al air­line Air Nos­trum. The air­line has in fact de­cided to re­nounce this...
Law-Now COVID-19: The new normal?
26 November 2020
COV­ID-19: European Com­mis­sion ap­proves EUR 22.2 mil­lion Cyp­ri­ot loan in...
By its de­cision of 18 Novem­ber 2020, the European Com­mis­sion ap­proved a Cyp­ri­ot aid scheme with a budget of EUR 22.2 mil­lion in fa­vour of Her­mes Air­ports Lim­ited, the op­er­at­or of Larnaka and Pa­fos in­ter­na­tion­al...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
24 November 2020
Single European Sky Per­form­ance Re­port 2019
On 29 Oc­to­ber 2020, the Single European Sky's per­form­ance re­view body pub­lished its re­port for 2019. This re­port also of­fers an in-depth over­view of the per­form­ance of air ser­vice pro­viders in the European...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
18 November 2020
COV­ID-19: European Com­mis­sion ex­tends cer­tain sup­port meas­ures for the...
In May 2020, the Com­mis­sion ad­op­ted a series of meas­ures amend­ing cer­tain con­di­tions of the Reg­u­la­tion No. 1008/2008 on com­mon rules for the op­er­a­tion of air ser­vices in the Com­munity and of the Dir­ect­ive...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
27 October 2020
COV­ID-19: Ex­ten­sion of the slot al­loc­a­tion waiver in fa­vour of air­lines...
The COV­ID-19 out­break has had a con­sid­er­able im­pact on the avi­ation sec­tor and has led to a sharp drop in air traffic world­wide since the be­gin­ning of 2020 as a res­ult of re­strict­ive meas­ures taken by...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
20 October 2020
COV­ID-19: European Com­mis­sion au­thor­ises EUR 19.3 mil­lion Ro­mani­an state-guar­an­teed...
On 5 Oc­to­ber 2020, the European Com­mis­sion au­thor­ised the grant­ing of a pub­lic loan guar­an­teed by the Ro­mani­an State for an amount of EUR19.3 mil­lion in fa­vour of Tar­om. The air­line had already re­ceived...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
16 October 2020
COV­ID-19: the European Com­mis­sion pro­longs the Tem­por­ary Frame­work on State...
On 19 March 2020, the Com­mis­sion ad­op­ted a Tem­por­ary Frame­work on State aid meas­ures to sup­port the eco­nomy in the cur­rent COV­ID-19 out­break. The Frame­work fore­sees a series of aid meas­ures that can be...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
13 October 2020
Man­aging the chal­lenges of the post COV­ID work­place
Few can deny the im­pact that the COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic has had and is hav­ing on the way people work since the glob­al es­cal­a­tion of the COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic in March 2020. "We have seen massive changes take place...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
05 October 2020
European Com­mis­sion's pub­lic con­sulta­tion on short-term ex­port-cred­it in­sur­ance
Are you a pub­lic au­thor­ity, a com­pany in­volved in ex­port cred­it in­sur­ance or simply an in­ter­ested party? Then you have un­til 7 Oc­to­ber 2020 to make your opin­ion known! In the Com­mu­nic­a­tion from the Com­mis­sion...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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