Regulation 5 General exclusions and savings

requires or prohibits—

affects the functions of a competent authority in relation to the granting of aids covered by F1F2assimilated law on competition;

prevents a competent authority from determining F3... what it considers to be a service of general economic interest, how services of general economic interest should be organised and financed in compliance with State aid rules F4in F5assimilated law and what specific obligations those services should be subject to;

affects the functions of a competent authority in relation to—

affects rules of private international law, in particular rules governing the law applicable to contractual and non-contractual obligations (including those which guarantee that consumers benefit from the protection granted to them in the United Kingdom).