Solutions and guidance on state aid, the statistical treatment and procurement rules should be relatively easy to produce. The more important issue is the funding gap analysis and the process alignment of the grant application and the PPP procurement. One possible solution is a process where grant application and PPP procurement can be run in parallel by determining a maximum grant component in the feasibility study, which is then used as the basis for the grant application, and then use the amount of grant funding as one of the determining tender criteria in the PPP procurement, i.e. a grant minimisation solution. Such grant minimisation would already work under present rules. However, the Commission should also ensure that the respective desk officers are fully aware of the options for blended PPPs. For the next Financial Perspective it would be desirable to simplify the funding gap analysis or even to replace it with new funding rules that would facilitate the use of PPPs in grant-funded projects.