As such, taking into account:
- what is mentioned in the preceding chapters;
- that, by determination of 01.08.2014, ICP - ANACOM’s Management Board approved a draft decision on pricing criteria for the universal postal service, which was submitted to a prior hearing of interested parties (under articles 100 and 101 of the Administrative Procedure Code), to the hearing of consumer organisations (under article 43 of the Postal Law), to a public consultation procedure (under article 9 of the Postal Law), having also been submitted to the opinion of the ICP-ANACOM’s Advisory Council [for the purpose of point c) of article 37 of ICP - ANACOM’s Statutes];
- Contributions received in the framework of the referred procedures, the analysis of which is laid down in the “Report of the prior hearing and public consultation on the DD concerning pricing criteria for the universal postal service”,
ICP-ANACOM’s Management Board:
- a) In the exercise of assignments conferred under:
a. Points b), d), h) and n) of paragraph 1 of article 6 and point b) of article 26, all of its Statutes, approved by Decree-Law No. 309/2001, of 7 December;
b. As well as paragraph 1 of article 8 of Law No. 17/2012, of 26 April (Postal Law), as amended by Decree-Law No. 160/2013, of 19 November, and by Law No. 16/2014, of 4 April;
- b) In the pursue of and in compliance with objectives and principles laid down in points b) and c) of paragraph 1 and in points a), b) and d) of paragraph 2 of article 2 of the Postal Law; and
- c) Pursuant to paragraph 3 of article 14 of the Postal Law,
hereby determines:
1. To approve the “Report of the prior hearing and public consultation on the DD concerning pricing criteria for the universal postal service”, which is deemed to be an integral part hereof;
2. To approve pricing criteria, in the Annex hereto, for postal services that comprise the universal service, to be complied with by CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A..
