Functional designs - the Invalidity Division draw the line, but will it hold?

Alicante News carries an English-language report of decision ICD 8225 (in German), in which OHIM's Invalidity Division re-drew the line on functional designs.  The decision concerned RCD 001213904-0001, registered for “pallets” as shown on the left. 
The Alicante News summary indicates that the Division have re-cast the question as one of design freedom.  In my view, that is the correct approach.  It is consistent with the previous "multiplicity of forms" test (adopted in the opinion of Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo in Philips v Remington (Case C-299/99) and followed in UK cases such as Landor & Hawa v Azure) as where a product can only be made in one shape, clearly no design freedom can exist, but seems likely to enable a more flexible approach which may deal with some of the criticisms of the multiplicity of forms" test without opening the door to the kind of subjective aesthetic judgement which can so easily result in refusal of protection to deserving and novel designs.  Can any German-speaking readers comment further on the decision?