45It follows that, with regard both to the wording of Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/72 and the definition of the concept of ‘public service obligations’ as given in a convergent way in the context of those acts adopted by the EU legislature in areas other than that of the electricity market, that concept, for the purposes of Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/72, corresponds to public intervention measures in the functioning of that market, which require undertakings operating in the electricity sector, for the purpose of pursuing a general economic interest, to act on that market on the basis of criteria imposed by the public authorities. The freedom of those undertakings to act on the electricity market is thus limited, in that, solely having regard to their own commercial interest, they would not have supplied certain goods or services, or would not have supplied them to the same extent or under the same conditions.
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