aidmeans any measure fulfilling all the criteria laid down in Article 107(1) TFEU;
aid schememeans any act on the basis of which, without further implementing measures being required, individual aid awards may be made to undertakings defined within the act in a general and abstract manner and any act on the basis of which aid which is not linked to a specific project may be awarded to one or several undertakings for an indefinite period of time and/or for an indefinite amount;
individual aidmeans aid that is not awarded on the basis of an aid scheme and notifiable awards of aid on the basis of an aid scheme;
interested partymeans any Member State and any person, undertaking or association of undertakings whose interests might be affected by the granting of aid, in particular the beneficiary of the aid, competing undertakings and trade associations.
misuse of aidmeans aid used by the beneficiary in contravention of a decision taken pursuant to Article 4(3) or Article 7(3) or (4) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 or Article 4(3) or Article 9(3) or (4) of this Regulation;
new aidmeans all aid, that is to say, aid schemes and individual aid, which is not existing aid, including alterations to existing aid;
unlawful aidmeans new aid put into effect in contravention of Article 108(3) TFEU;