2.5.6 Concluding remarks

While the present section set out the procedural rules relating to the different types of aid (new aid, unlawful aid, misuse of aid and existing aid), the procedure relating to new aid is the most important in this PhD-study. Indeed, all beneficiary banks were concerned by this procedure, while there are only a few cases of misuse of aid and unlawful aid.

Moreover, the present section explained the relevant distinction between the preliminary investigation procedure and the formal investigation procedure. The relevance of this distinction will become apparent in section 3.7.3, which discusses the distinction between commitment decisions (taken in the context of the preliminary investigation procedure) and conditional decisions (taken in the context of the formal investigation procedure).