To this journal the long-awaited publication of the report and the communication on socalled services of general economic interest on 23 March 2011 is of somewhat historical significance. When this Quarterly was created in early 2002, it entered its first runway with a discussion of the late Ferring judgment. Both the battlegrounds on which various Advocate Generals of the European Court of Justice fought for the “correct” notion of an aid in the specific context of offs