| NOTAS: | "The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) considers it important to provide information about the postal market developments in the ERGP Member countries. Extended knowledge about market developments is key in the context of full market opening to ensure that it continues to benefit all users, both consumers and businesses. Furthermore, updating information on market developments is also important to National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) to allow them to properly perform their regulatory duties, particularly the obligations arising from the Postal Services Directive. Monitoring the European postal market is also essential as part of ERGP's task of assisting the European Commission regarding the development of the internal market for postal services and the consistent application of the regulatory framework for postal services. ERGP has identified specific indicators to monitor market developments in this framework and has collected data on these indicators. This benchmarking exercise aims 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 from 29 countriesto a questionnaire requesting data for 2018-2022, complemented with the information provided by the countries in previous ERGP questionnaires. Therefore, the report's conclusions reflect these data, considering the period from 2018 to 2022. However, the data presented in this report may differ from previous years due to the data reviews by NRAs." |
