While the German Federal State just informed the EU Commission that it will not repeal the fee-scales system for architects and engineers (‘HOAI’), the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) expresses its support to Germany for wanting to maintain the HOAI. During the last ACE General Assembly (22-23 April), ACE Member Organisations discussed architects’ fee-scales from a European perspective and broadly supported the German HOAI, considered as a tool in the interest of clients and contracting and public authorities, as well as a driver of quality in the built environment.