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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation Implementation: Insights and Next Steps

The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR” or the “Regulation”) is a critical addition to the EU’s toolkit for ensuring fair competition. By addressing distortive foreign subsidies, the FSR completes the set of competition law and international trade law tools. As highlighted in previous newsletters, the Regulation entered into force on 12 January 2023, with full application starting on 12 July 2023, enabling the Commission to launch ex officio investigations. Since 12 October 2023, the notification requirements have applied to mergers and public procurements above certain thresholds. Now, more than a year after the notification requirements entered into force, this newsletter examines the European Commission’s implementation of the FSR to date (Section II). We also analyze key statistics, the industries in focus,...To read the full article, please see the PDF file

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平家 正博

Masahiro Heike specializes in international trade law. From 2016 to 2018, he worked at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as an in-government lawyer, and handled numerous WTO disputes and trade negotiations and was responsible for the trade policies of other jurisdictions including the United States and China. Currently, he is involved in a wide range of matters including WTO dispute settlement cases, domestic and foreign trade remedy cases (anti-dumping, safeguards), government research related to international trade law, and the handling of tariffs and origin relations.