Date: Thursday 27 March 2025

Registration: 13:30 CET

Drinks reception: 16:15 CET

Location: Herbert Smith Freehills, Rue de Loxum 25, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Registration for this event has now closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, in case space becomes available, please email: [email protected].

In June 2023, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (‘FSR’) came into force. Since then, there has been one phase II conditional clearance decision by the European Commission in relation to a notification of a concentration and the threshold of 1,000 notifications has been passed for public procurement notifications.

The ex-officio tool has also been used by the European Commission to request information from a large number of businesses, which has already been met with an ongoing challenge in front of the EU courts.

In addition, the Commission published last week a Call for Evidence to inform the elaboration of the guidelines on certain key concepts of the FSR, which will need to be adopted by 13 January 2026. Stakeholders have until 2 April 2025 to submit their comments.

Join us on 27 March 2025 for this free, must-attend event, to hear from those working at the forefront of the FSR and relevant industries.

The event will open with a keynote address by Leo Flynn, Director of State Aid at the European Commission’s Legal Service.

This will be followed by a panel discussion where insights will be shared reflecting a diverse set of first-hand experiences with the FSR from:

Eddy De Smijter, Head of the Foreign Subsidies I Unit, DG Competition

Linlin Liang, Director of Communication and Research, China Chamber of Commerce to the European Union

Giles Dickson, CEO, WindEurope

Ianis Girgenson, Group General Counsel, United Group

The discussions will address practical questions facing businesses and practitioners, and will look ahead in terms of FSR enforcement over the forthcoming year.

Following thought-provoking discussions, we invite you to join us for a drinks reception.

This event is being run by Oxera Consulting LLP (‘Oxera’) and Herbert Smith Freehills (‘HSF’). Oxera and HSF will act as joint data controllers and will store and use your data in accordance with both HSF’s and Oxera’s privacy policies. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].