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"Services of general interest are those services which the state believes to be particularly important for the population and which cannot be provided adequately for all citizens without state intervention and subsidies. These include, for example, running hospitals, providing resources for education, building social housing and supplying energy. The European Union recognises the necessity for subsidies of this kind, but also stipulates in Article 106(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union that compensation paid by the state is subject, in principle, to EU rules on competition, unless the application of these rules obstructs the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks. The Commission is responsible for investigating whether State aid meets these requirements on the basis of the four Altmark criteria. It is absolutely clear that services in the areas described are far too important in terms of prosperity and social order in the EU Member States for the European Commission to be able to decide whether the aid is being provided efficiently and cost-effectively. Instead, it should be left to the Member States to evaluate whether the subsidies which they are granting are necessary. Therefore, I have voted against this motion."@en1
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