The second part of the paper deals with the impact of the “State aid crisis” on the traditional regulation in the relevant field. The transformation of an exceptional regulation into a standard law is assessed, along with the need of a better coordinated crisis law in the field of State aid.

The timing of the choice of the subject of the present study coincided with the plateau phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and the statements made by governments around the world to quickly turn to the green transition. If an economic crisis was foreseeable after the imbalance generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the outbreak of a war on Romania’s borders had not been anticipated, a war that would serve as a catalyst for the energy crisis...