Recital 1

(1) State funding that meets the criteria set out in Article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union constitutes State aid and requires notification to the Commission pursuant to Article 108(3) of the Treaty. However, pursuant to Article 109 of the Treaty, the Council may determine categories of aid that are exempted from that notification requirement. In accordance with Article 108(4) of the Treaty, the Commission may adopt regulations relating to those categories of State aid. In Regulation (EU) 2015/1588, the Council decided, in accordance with Article 109 of the Treaty, that de minimis aid (that is to say, aid granted to the same undertaking over a specific period of time that does not exceed a certain fixed amount) could constitute one such category. On that basis, de minimis aid is deemed not to meet all the criteria laid down in Article 107(1) of the Treaty and is therefore not subject to the notification procedure.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.