Services of general economic interest are economic activities that public authorities identify as being of particular importance to citizens and that would not be supplied (or would be supplied under different conditions) if there were no public intervention.
Storitve splošnega gospodarskega pomena so gospodarske dejavnosti, ki jih javni organi opredelijo kot posebno pomembne za državljane in ki se brez javnega posredovanja ne bi mogle izvajati (ali bi se lahko izvajale le pod posebnimi pogoji).