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Universal postal service pricing criteria

Decision of 21.11.2014 / Published on 03.12.2014 / Updated on 15.07.2015

By decision of 21 November 2014, ANACOM has approved the criteria to govern the pricing of postal services comprising the universal service provided by CTT - Correios de Portugal (CTT), as will apply in the 2015-2017 three-year period.

Approval was also given to the report of the prior hearing and consultation to which the respective draft decision, as approved on 01 August 2014, was submitted. In response to these procedures, contributions were received from the following undertakings: APImprensa - Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa (Portuguese Press Association), CTT, DECO - Associação Portuguesa para a Defesa do Consumidor (Portuguese Association for Consumer Protection) and from José Silva Duarte. An opinion was also received from ANACOM's Advisory Council.

Download de ficheiro Final decision of 21.11.2014 (PDF 564 Kb) - rectified by decision of 25.06.2015https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1361280, due to a material error identified on page 33 of the decision and in paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the annex thereto.

Decision on the universal postal service pricing criteria

1. Introduction and scope of application of this decisionhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345026

2. Regulatory frameworkhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=380505

3. Postal services for use by blind and partially-sighted personshttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345029

4. The postal sector in Portugalhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345118

5. Universal Service covered by this decisionhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345033

6. Application of principles of transparency and non discriminationhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345036

7. Application of principles of cost-orientation and affordabilityhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=380512

8. Principle of uniform tariffshttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345218

9. Pricing rules for correspondence services, editorial mail services and parcel serviceshttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345219

10. Price cap for reserved serviceshttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345228

11. European practisehttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345232

12. Decisionhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345234

Annex (Pricing criteria for postal services that comprise the universal service)https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1345235

Consult:

Consultation on criteria for the formulation of universal postal service pricing https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1310192

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