First time in history, Member State can attribute grants for recycling and waste management, without formal advice of the European Commission. Commission checked out the General Regulations of Exemptions by Categories. They allow grants inside the community market. In the first of July of 2014, it is coming into force, but after the official publication on the DOUE.
These regulations are a really important part of the legislation about national grants of the EU. It means, there are the rules that determine when a Member State can provide economical support to the companies o to the industries.
Recycling and waste management grants are compatible with domestic market, but only when they respect European Waste hierarchy and they should provide an advance in the technique state of art, beside other requirements.
First, Member State can´t apply a national grant without previous endorsement of the European Commission. For this purpose, each national grant has to be notified to the European Commission. After that, the domestic grant measure is assessed by the European Commission, they check out compatibility with national grant rules of the European Union.
RGEC creates an important exemption to this rule, domestic grant measures are on the current Regulations can be implement by Member State without any European Commision notification.
It is new that the for recycling and waste management grants are compatible with domestic market, when the initiative respects waste hierarchy and it provides an advance in the state of art technique. It should be an increase of the collecting materials, and it shouldn ´t be a increase of the demand of the recycling elements.
The amount of the grant will not exceed 35% of the expenditure that can be grant, but this quantity can be increase in the following cases:

– Between 20% and 10% in grants for small and medium companies
– 15% in grants that promote economic development of regions with low level of fife o with an unemployment problem
– 5% grants for developing some regions or industries.
This approach is an award of the contribution of the State Member grants to protect carefully environment, therefore European Union gives importance to waste management in the environmental policy.
Source: Christian Morron Lingl