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This article investigates the 2008 reform of the EU's environmental state aid guidelines. The author focuses on determining the degree of external pressure and lobbyism towards environmental state aid policies, and finds a strikingly low level of external pressure on the policy field, not least on part of the private sector. She discusses possible reasons for this and asks whether state-aid policymaking might be marked less by clear and established interests and utility maximizing and more by actors constrained by complexity and bounded rationality.