The present note is a successor of Ilchmann and Kirchhoff (Math Control Signals Syst 33:359–377, 2021) on generic controllability and stabilizability of linear differential-algebraic equations. We resolve the drawback that genericity is considered in the unrestricted set of system matrices $$(E,A,B)\in \mathbb {R}^{\ell \times }\times \mathbb {R}^{\ell \times n}\times \mathbb {R}^{\ell \times m}$$
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