European State Aid Law Association

Members

Membership

• Membership is open to lawyers currently associated with a law firm or scholars associated with an academic institute with demonstrable experience in State aid law, typically evidenced by at least 10 years experience whether in private practice, academia, the European Commission or ESA, through the extensive involvement in advice on state aid issues, involvement in multiple notification or investigation procedures with the European Commission or the ESA and/or as a legal representative in court procedures before national and/or EU courts and publications.
• Members must be prepared to actively participate in ESALA’s activities.
• Anyone interested in a membership can apply for it by sending an e-mail to the ESALA Committee.
• By becoming a member each individual declares that any exchange of thoughts with officials of the European Commission, the ESA or other institutions will take place under Chatham house rules. Therefore, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the officials, nor that of any other participant to a meeting, may be revealed including to any person not participating in the meeting. When registering for a meeting, participants to that meeting explicitly agree to this condition.
• The Committee may formulate additional rules. Members that stay member of ESALA after additional rules have come into force, are considered to agree to these rules.

Activities

• ESALA will organize (on line) discussions with senior staff of the Commission and/or the ESA under the Chatham House rule. ESALA plans to hold these discussions quarterly. Members can participate in these meetings.
• ESALA will draft submissions to internet consultations conducted by the European Commission. Members are invented to participate in the working groups that prepare the submissions.
• ESALA may draft unsolicited submissions concerning state aid issues as well. Members are invented to participate in the working groups that prepare the submissions.
• ESALA will organize an annual plenary meeting for which
• ESALA will invite Commission and ESA staff and/or members of the judiciary as well.

Costs

• Membership is free.
• Costs of meetings etc. will be borne by the participants to that meeting.

Communication

• The ESALA Committee will communicate with the members by e-mail and through ESALA’s website and Linkedin-page.
• All members will be mentioned on the ESALA’s website and Linkedin-page, unless they object to being mentioned.
• All submissions will be published on ESALA’s website and its Linkedin page, mentioning the members of the working group that drafted the submission.