The system of licenses and authorisations for non-reserved postal services operators enters into force today. Provision of non-reserved services is subject to a license, if such services are included within the universal service, and to an authorisation in all other cases.
The frontiers between the two categories are defined in function of price and/or weight. Examples of non-reserved services included within the universal service (and thus subject to a license) include sending of correspondence whose price is equal to or above 5 times the price of priority mail or whose weight is equal to or above 350 grams and below 2 kilograms; and sending of publications weighing up to 2 kilograms.
Examples of non-reserved services that are not included within the universal service, (and thus subject to an authorisation) include operation of document exchange centres, sending of correspondence, including direct mailings, whose weight exceeds 2 kilograms and sending of registered post and correspondence of declared value weighing over 2 kilograms.
Consult:
- Postal services https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=4611
