A clear majority of stakeholders are in favour of a Community initiative on concessions. Overall, the number of stakeholders in favour of legislation approximately equals the number of stakeholders in favour of some sort of guidelines on the rules applying to procedures for awarding concessions. A majority of contributors, however, do not see any objective grounds for new legislative action to cover all contractual PPPs, irrespective of whether these are designated as contracts or concessions, to make them subject to identical award arrangements.