The EU is not a tax collection body, but there is this: > The Commission can order recovery of illegal state aid for a ten-year period preceding the Commission

The EU is not a tax collection body, but there is this: > The Commission can order recovery of illegal state aid for a ten-year period preceding the Commission's first request for information in 2013. from the press release http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm