50In particular, in the context of Directive 2006/123, that discretion has been reaffirmed by the EU legislature, in the second subparagraph of Article 1(3) of that directive, which states that the directive does not affect the freedom of Member States to define, in conformity with EU law, what they consider to be SGEIs, how those services should be organised and financed in compliance with the State aid rules, and to what specific obligations they should be subject.
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