Policy field
Competition: State aid rules
Target group
Open consultation. All citizens and organisations are welcome to contribute to this consultation. Consultations are particularly sought from public authorities and stakeholders.
Period of consultation
From 03.10.2025 to 04.11.2025
Objective of the consultation
The goal of the public consultation is to gather insights and feedback from national, regional and local authorities, stakeholders and the public.
This will notably help the Commission to assess, in a collaborative, transparent and inclusive manner, how the SGEI Decision needs to be amended to facilitate affordable housing investments.
The proposed revised SGEI Decision aims to introduce new rules for affordable-housing SGEIs which should prevent undue distortion in the private housing sector and bring sufficient legal certainty to Member States and public authorities, while at the same time allowing them to tailor the rules to their specific national and local housing contexts.
To that end, a new category of exemption is added to the SGEI Decision for affordable housing with the following definition: "housing for households, who are not able, due to market outcomes and notably market failures, to access housing at affordable conditions”. Specific conditionality is also introduced for affordable housing services of general economic interest.
The new SGEI Decision also proposes introducing sectorial changes concerning critical medicine, aviation and maritime sectors as well as changes aiming at updating and simplifying the rules.
Consultation documents
- The draft SGEI Decision 2012/21/EU (ZIP file, all EU languages)
Reference documents
- Public Consultation and Call for evidence. These consultations were opened form 5 June to 31 July 2025.
- Implementation Dialogues and Reality Checks: Housing Reality Check - Summary of Findings and Operational Conclusions.
How to submit your contribution
We welcome contributions from citizens, organisations and public authorities.
- Submit your contribution as a citizen
- Submit your contribution on behalf of an organisation
- Submit your contribution on behalf of a public authority
Received contributions will be published on this webpage. Submissions that are clearly marked "confidential" will be treated as such and not published. In that case please also provide a non-confidential version of your reply. It is important to read the privacy statement attached to this consultation for information on how your personal data and contribution will be dealt with.
When providing us with the documents requested above, please ensure that redactions made by you properly cover all confidential information and cannot be reversed.
Please note that we cannot guarantee to take account of replies received after the deadline.
We would appreciate receiving documents in an electronic format.
Contact details
Responsible service:
Directorate-General for Competition – taskforce on affordable housing
Please always indicate the reference number in your correspondence: HT.6515
e-mail: COMP-HOUSING-SA-TASK-FORCE
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (COMP-HOUSING-SA-TASK-FORCE[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)
Postal address:
European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition
State aid Registry
1049 Bruxelles /Brussel
Belgique /België
Tel (32-2) 29 61154
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Results of consultation and next steps
The results of this consultation and of broader stakeholder engagement will feed into the ongoing review of the SGEI Decision.
The adoption of the final revised SGEI Decision will, in correlation with the EU Affordable Housing Plan, occur before the end of the year 2025.
Reason why the consultation period is less than 12 weeks
This consultation will be open for one month instead of 12 weeks following the political emergency and priority of the revision of the State aid rules for the affordable housing.