With the package submitted, the Commission is adapting the current approach; however, with a stronger market-based orientation, in which primarily economic cost efficiency requirements are put on the configuration of the SGEI, but which hardly leaves any scope for quality considerations. ÖSTB, VÖWG and BAK welcome individual improvements in the new package, such as expanding the exemption decision to social services or the new de minimis regulation for services of general interest. However, compared to the list of issues to be tightened up, these provide only small comfort: in particular the lowering of the notification threshold from currently EUR 30 million to EUR 15 million and limiting the Act of Entrustment to ten years in the new Exemption Decision are lacking in practical relevance and do not make sense; the same applies to limiting the scope of the new de minimis regulation to local authorities representing a population of less than 10,000 inhabitants.