| NOTAS: | "The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) considers it to be of significant importance to provide information about the postal market developments in the ERGP Member countries. Monitoring the European postal market is also essential in the context of ERGP’s task of assisting the European Commission regarding the development of the internal market for postal services and in the consistent application of the regulatory framework for postal services. In this framework, ERGP has identified specific indicators to monitor market developments and has been working on collecting data on these indicators. The objective of this benchmarking exercise is to provide information about core indicators of the European postal market based on information collected with NRAs while also identifying trends and main market developments. The report is based on the replies of the 33 countries to a questionnaire requesting data for the period from 2013 to 2017, complemented with information provided by the countries in previous ERGP questionnaires. The conclusions of the report therefore reflect these data taking into account the period from 2013 to 2017. Data presented in this report may differ from data presented in reports from previous years, due to the review of the data by NRAS. In particular, differences in the available information (resulting from having more or less NRAs replying to the questionnaires) in each year strongly influences the information that can be presented." |
