The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) have set up a joint working group with the aim of analysing whether regulatory insights from the electronic communications sector can be transferred to the cross-border parcels sector.
The new working group, chaired by representatives of ANACOM (Portugal), ANCOM (Romania) and Bnetza (Germany), has been given until the end of 2015 to submit information and suggestions to the European Commission (EC) on the following policy areas:
- identifying adequate means to monitor the cross border parcels delivery, especially with regard to prices;
- identifying adequate means to intervene concerning certain problems regarding cross border parcels delivery, if deemed necessary and proportionate, particularly regarding price transparency;
- outlining specific measures/policy options to be created by the EC to tackle eventual problems identified concerning price transparency for European cross-border deliveries, including namely for prices of small shipments.
The decision to set up this working group was taken following a meeting held between EC Vice-President Andrus Ansip, BEREC Chair Fátima Barros and ERGP Chair Feliksas Dobrolvolskis on 15 June 2015, at which several aspects associated with the postal sector in the scope of the recent EC Communication on the Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy were discussed and an agreement was made to strengthen cooperation between BEREC and ERGP.
Further information:
- BEREC-ERGP Joint ad-hoc working group will be set up on cross border parcels http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/press_releases/5135-berec-ergp-joint-ad-hoc-working-group-will-be-set-up-on-cross-border-parcels
