- Volume 11 (2012), Issue 2
- Vol. 11 (2012), No. 2
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- Pages 63 - 81
- pp. 63 - 81
Some Legal Reflections on the Almunia Package
I. Introduction Ever since the establishment of the European Economic Community – now the European Union (EU) – the treatment of services of general economic interest (SGEI) never was a straightforward issue under European law. The first legal issue is the exact meaning of the concept of SGEI. Legal commentators, the Commission in its decision-making practice as well as the EU courts all agree that ‘SGEI’ is a EU-law concept without direct equiva