The need for reform of state support refers to measures and solutions to help the European and also the Croatian economy to become more competitive in the global market. In the right of the EU state support are generally prohibited. However, there are exceptions to this prohibition. For the EU and its Member States could take industrial policy and raise the competitiveness of the economy, developed the rules governing the purpose and conditions under which Member States may still grant state support. In exceptional cases, such as cases of economic crisis world-wide, targeted state support to rescue industries that make up the axis of the economies of the Member States are necessary. The way it is right to accommodate the principle of the European Union ban on granting state support by increasing the exceptions to this prohibition, a smart way of not altering the base, the definition of state support. The European Commission won its policy is to preserve the definition of government grants, but with flexible circumvention prohibitions. Serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State is an example of exceptions ban on state support, which certainly should be interpreted broadly enough to be applied in the event of such a crisis. Croatia has to align the criteria for granting state support. The most important and most difficult will be to redirect state support from certain sectors of the economy towards horizontal objectives.