
140 R. Hinrichs-Rahlwes
Apart from those support mechanisms, which are State aid and which are therefore treated as
such by the Commission (e.g. Austria, Luxembourg, Slovenia), there are other national support
systems, which do not fall under the State aid regime, because they are not fed by public funds or
from the public budget. The most outstanding of these systems is the German feed-in legislation
as set up in 1991 and refined in the “Renewable Energy Sources Act” (EEG) in 2000 (and in
several amendments since then)
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. The question, whether the EEG (and the predecessor law of
1991) is State aid or not, has been discussed for more than a decade. ...