  We show at the example of the matrix element between pion states of a
twist-2, non-singlet operator that Wilson twisted mass fermions allow to
compute this phenomenologically relevant quantitiy at small pseudo scalar
masses of O(270 MeV). In the quenched approximation, we investigate the scaling
behaviour of this observable that is derived from a 3-point function by
applying two definitions of the critical mass and find a scaling compatible
with the expected O(a^2) behaviour in both cases. A combined continuum
extrapolations allows to obtain reliable results at small pion masses, which
previously could not be explored by lattice QCD simulations.
