(21)This Regulation should be without prejudice to the application of State aid rules to qualifying venture capital funds. Such funds may serve as vehicles for State aid to promote risk capital investments in SMEs through, for example, more favourable treatment of private investors than of public investors, provided such aid is compatible with State aid rules and in particular with Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 8 .
Recital 21
- 8 Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty ( OJ L 187, 26.6.2014, p. 1 ). ↩