Compensating providers of such services in such circumstances need not result in the distortion of competition, provided that such providers are compensated for the specific net cost involved and provided that the net cost burden is recovered in a competitively neutral way.
Ní gá go ndéanfar iomaíocht a shaobhadh i gcás ina ndéanfaí soláthraithe na seirbhísí sin a chúiteamh sna himthosca sin, ar choinníoll go ndéanfar na soláthraithe sin a chúiteamh don ghlanchostas sonrach lena mbaineann agus go ndéanfar an glanualach costais a aisghabháil ar bhealach atá neodrach ó thaobh na hiomaíochta de.