Only the former include core compensation charges and thus imply adjusted multipoles for screening. Accuracy of GAPW is assessed for a test set of 35 molecules, investigating both singlet and triplet vertical excitation energies as well as corresponding excited-state geometries (section 3.1). Enabling the description of excited-state properties, the GAPW excited-state gradient code is finally applied to compute the zero-phonon line of defective hBN (section 3.2).