This workshop was held with Member States and stakeholders on the basis of the issues paper.
Opening remarks
- Modernising State Aid through better evaluations
Gert Jan Koopman, European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition, Deputy Director-General for State aid
Evaluation for a better policy making
- Evaluation in the field of State aid
Anne Bucher, Director for Structural reforms and competitiveness, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission - The evaluation of UK regional aid programmes
Ruth Anderton, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, United Kingdom - State aid control and competition impact assessment
Alberto Heimler, Italian School of Government, OECD, Italy - State aid and the CNC (Comisión Nacional de la Competencia)
Antonio Maudes, Advocacy Director, CNC (national competition authority), Spain - Counterfactual impact evaluation. The experience of DG Regional Policy
Daniel Mouqué, Directorate-General for Regional Policy, European Commission - Modernising State Aid through better evaluation
Reinhilde Veugelers, University of Leuven, CEPR and Bruegel, Belgium
Introducing evaluation in the State aid system
- Evaluation of State Aid
John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, United Kingdom - A system of measuring the efficiency of state aids in Slovenia
Lea J. Lekočevič, Head of the Department to monitor State aid, Directorate of Public Property, Ministry of Finance, Slovenia - Finnish practice of evaluating State Aid
Matti Pietarinen, Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland - Some challenges for meaningful impact evaluation
Roland Rathelot, Institut des Politiques Publiques, France
Background information
- Modernising State Aid through better evaluations
Bruegel Workshop on 6th Dec 2012 - What are counterfactual impact evaluations teaching us about enterprise and innovation support
Daniel Mouqué, European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy - Annual reports on public aid in Spain: 2012, 2011, 2009
National Competition Authority of Spain (CNC)