This chapter is characterised by a divergence between, on the one hand, the stated call for State aid efforts to be focused on horizontal aid designed to promote the Lisbon strategy and, on the other, the strictly legalistic approach to managing this issue, a course which has now been marked out by the Altmark judgment and, since July 2005, by the Commission's new regulatory decisions stemming from that judgment.
This chapter is characterised by a divergence between, on the one hand, the stated call for State aid efforts to be focused on horizontal aid designed to promote the Lisbon strategy and, on the other, the strictly legalistic approach to managing this issue, a course which has now been marked out by the Altmark judgment and, since July 2005, by the Commission's new regulatory decisions stemming from that judgment.