This means, according to the proposal of the EC, there should be exclusively mandatory tendering for all transport services, apart from if an authority itself provides these transport services or an internal operator, which is controlled by it, or if it concerns a small-volume contract or emergency measures. It would basically no longer be possible to directly award rail passenger transport in Austria to ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways ) and private railways, but Austria would have to subject her domestic railway market to Europe-wide competitive tendering