Katarzyna Pamuła-Wróbel

Poland

Katarzyna Pamuła-Wróbel is a Director at Olesiński i Wspólnicy in a State aid Department. She specializes in legal advisory services related to State aid and European funds. For almost 11 years she worked at the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in the Department of State Aid Monitoring, where she held the position of Deputy Director for the last 4 years. She has many years of experience in examining the existence of State aid and ensuring its compatibility with the internal market.
Katarzyna is professionally occupied with important projects of common European interest (IPCEI) as well as aid for RDI and aid in energy sector.
She has participated in a number of notification proceedings before the European Commission, and represented the Polish side in complaints and monitoring cases before the European Commission. She has successfully conducted notification proceedings on IPCEI in the battery sector, hydrogen and microelectronics as well as many anti-crisis aid.

Melvin Könings

The Netherlands

Melvin Könings is senior managing consultant on EU State aid affairs for the Lysias Consulting Group in The Netherlands. He studied Public Administration. Melvin has a wide practical experience in local, national, and international civil service. 
From his in deep State aid assessments, Melvin Könings knows a wide variety of policy instruments in detail. Not only from a legal perspective, but also from an economic and political perspective. He is also very well informed on the notification procedures for State aid measures, both procedural but also practical.  
Melvin has a lot of experience in providing State aid training. He was a lecturer in the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht (NL) and at present he is visiting lecturer at the Avans University of Applied Sciences (NL). He regularly provides presentations for both civil service and industry.
 

20 April 2026

09.00     Welcome and introduction of the participants 
09.30     Introduction to EU State Aid Law – history and motivation
10.30     Coffee break 
10.45     Key concepts and principles and types of state aid rules 
12:00     De minimis aid: practical experiences
12.30     Lunch break 
13:30     What is a SME company? 
14.15     How to combine EU funding and national funding 
15.00     Tea break 
15.15     How to grant legitimate State aid: using the GBER
16.30     End of day 1

21 April 2026

09.00     Wrap up day 1 – Q&A session 
09.15     Services of General Economic Interest (incl. Altmark)
10.00     First practical example: assessment of a State aid case
10.30     Coffee break
10.45     Outcome and discussion 
11:30     State Aid rules and SCOs
12.00     Dealing with irregularities and recovery of aid and audit 
12.30     Lunch break 
13.30     Financial Instruments (loans, equity, guarantees)
14.15    Incentive effect, Transparency Module 
15.00    Coffee break 
15.15    Novelties like the upcoming de-minimis register and EU Industry Policy      
16:30     End of day 2