The implications of the "Appingedam ruling" are "hot. In this ruling, the Division ruled that high requirements are placed on the justification of a branching scheme. Pursuant to the Services Directive, the regulation may not discriminate, the regulation must be necessary to achieve the objective and the regulation must be able to pass the proportionality test. The rulings regarding the municipality of Schijndel, the municipality of Maastricht and Decathlon Zuid-Holland elaborated on this doctrine.