1. Introduction

CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. (CTT) submitted to the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) a price and discount proposal within the scope of the universal postal service, which CTT intends to take effect as from 01.04.2017 ¹.

The price proposal submitted by CTT fits into criteria with which pricing of postal services that integrate the universal service (pricing criteria) must comply with, as defined by determination of ANACOM, of 21.11.2014 ², pursuant to paragraph 3 of article 14 of Law No. 17/2012, of 26 April, 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.

The price proposal concerns services that integrate the universal postal service, referred to in paragraph 1 of article 12 of the Postal Law and covered by article 14 of the same Law³. The following services are covered by the proposal:

a) At national level: standard mail, priority mail, registered mail, easy mail, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, standard parcels, legal summons and notifications (reserved services) and insured mail;

b) At international level: standard mail, priority mail, registered mail, easy mail, economic mail - special regime, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, parcels and insured mail.

The price proposal includes the following features:

a) For the basket of services made up of items of correspondence, parcels, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, CTT’s proposal corresponds to an overall average annual variation of prices of 2.4%;

b) For reserved services (legal summons and notifications service), the price proposal corresponds to an average annual variation of prices of -1.7%;

c) Change in the minimum annual invoicing amount eligible for subscribing spot contracts, from 1000 euros to 1500 euros;

d) Change in the designations of the tariffs known as "occasional segment" and "contractual segment", which are now known as "base prices" and "quantity prices", respectively.