Published Thursday, 18 June 2009
The money will be used for the development and building of the wings for the company's new C Series aircraft in Belfast.
The government is providing £113.7m in repayable investment for the development of the composite wings for the regional jet.
The money is part of a £500m investment at the Belfast plant for the new regional jet.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said the approval on Thursday was another step forward for the C-Series programme and the whole aerospace sector in Northern Ireland.
She said: "The development and manufacture of full-scale composite wings for a new generation of aircraft such as the C-Series will require the development of new cutting-edge technologies which do not yet exist.
"That Bombardier has selected Northern Ireland as the location to undertake such work, is a strong endorsement of the research, development and innovative capabilities in our aerospace sector."
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness travelled to Brussels in April to lobby on behalf of the state aid.
The approval from the EC is the latest piece in the jigsaw and followed on from last week's recommendation by the Department of the Environment Planning Service to Belfast City Council that it should approve a proposal for a new 700,000 square foot factory at Bombardier's Airport Road West site where the advanced composite wings will be manufactured.