• transparency obligations; • ensuring compliance with the notification obligation; • ensuring the compatibility of aid and the application of block exemptions; • recovery of aid; • limitation of judicial review; and • the position of state aid debt in bankruptcy proceedings. No serious academic contribution to the present debate on the reform of state aid law can afford to ignore this book. As a unique and thorough overview of state-of-the-art knowledge on national law and practice on EU State aid matters, this compendium will be of inestimable value to practitioners involved in representing interests of beneficiaries and competitors before national authorities or national courts, or before the European Commission or European Courts. The analyses will also be welcomed by authorities granting state aid, including public enterprises.