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Foreign Subsidies Regulation compliance tool

Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 · European Union · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your Foreign Subsidies Regulation documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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Foreign Subsidies Regulation is Regulation (EU) 2022/2560, a binding instrument in the European Union. Notification of foreign subsidies in large concentrations and public tenders.

The free assessment screens for Foreign Subsidies Regulation when a business bids for or holds public sector contracts. The Regulation's notification duties arise at public contracts worth 250 million euros or more and at concentrations where a party has Union turnover of 500 million euros or more.

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• Your exact position under Foreign Subsidies Regulation: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does Foreign Subsidies Regulation apply to my business?

The Foreign Subsidies Regulation applies to you if you are an undertaking engaging in an economic activity in the EU internal market, including acquiring control of or merging with a Union-established undertaking, or participating in an EU public procurement procedure. It also catches public undertakings directly or indirectly controlled by a State.

Who does Foreign Subsidies Regulation apply to?

It applies to all undertakings, including public undertakings controlled by a State, that engage in an economic activity in the internal market, to undertakings acquiring control of or merging with a Union-established undertaking, and to undertakings participating in a public procurement procedure in the Union. Contracting authorities and contracting entities also carry duties.

Does Foreign Subsidies Regulation apply to a small business?

The Regulation has no size threshold that exempts small businesses. It pays special attention to SMEs, treats foreign subsidies to SMEs as less likely to cause distortions, and requires the notification thresholds and the Commission's delegated power to amend them to take SME interests into account, but the notification duties still bite when the Article 20(3) and Article 28(1) to (2) thresholds are met.

When does Foreign Subsidies Regulation apply from, and what are the deadlines?

The Regulation entered into force on 12 July 2023 for general application under Article 54(2), and the notification obligations under Articles 21 and 29 applied from 12 October 2023 under Article 54(4). Commission guidelines on distortion criteria, the balancing test, prior notification powers and public procurement distortion assessment were due by 12 January 2026 under Article 46(1).

What does Foreign Subsidies Regulation require me to do?

You must notify the Commission before completing a notifiable concentration under Article 21(1) and observe the standstill periods, and you must notify foreign financial contributions with your tender in public procurement under Article 29(1). You must also respond to Commission information requests, submit to inspections, honour commitments and redressive measures, and not arrange operations to circumvent the notification requirements under Article 39(1).

What records or documents does Foreign Subsidies Regulation require me to keep or produce?

You must produce the concentration notification and the public procurement notification or declaration, including the foreign financial contributions meeting the Article 28(1)(b) threshold of EUR 4 million or more per third country in the three years prior to notification. You must also supply information in response to an Article 13 information request and produce required books during inspections.

What happens if I do not comply with Foreign Subsidies Regulation?

The Commission may fine you up to 1 per cent of aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year for supplying incomplete, incorrect or misleading information in a concentration notification under Article 26(2) or a public procurement notification or declaration under Article 33(2). It may fine you up to 10 per cent of aggregate turnover for failing to notify a notifiable concentration before carrying it out, carrying out a concentration in breach of standstill, or circumventing the notification requirements under Article 26(3) and Article 33(3).

How do I start complying with Foreign Subsidies Regulation?

The first practical step is scope determination, and from there you file the concentration notification under Article 21(1) or the public procurement notification under Article 29(1) where the thresholds are met.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the Foreign Subsidies Regulation toolkit?

The Foreign Subsidies Regulation agent toolkit is included in Compliance Complete.

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