By decision of 26 June 2020, ANACOM approved the assessment of cross-border single-piece tariffs in 2020 by CTT - Correios de Portugal (CTT), as universal service provider (PSU), as under article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2018/644https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1435245 (Cross-Border Regulation), on cross-border parcel delivery services, as well as the respective notification to the European Commission.
The Cross-Border Regulation aims, among other aspects, to make the prices of cross-border services more transparent and more easily comparable throughout the entire European Union (EU), encouraging the reduction of exaggerated differences between tariffs.
The tariffs analysed by ANACOM were identified by application of the pre-assessment filter system identified in Commission Communication COM (2018) 838https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1465228, relative to parcels of:
- 1 kg track & trace parcels for EU Member States (MS), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;
- 2kg track & trace parcels for EU MS, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;
- 5kg track & trace parcels for EU MS , (except for Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Luxemburg and Netherlands), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
These tariffs are part of the basket of prices analysed by ANACOM under the universal service pricing criteria for the three-year period of 2018-2020, established by ANACOM decision of 12 July 2018https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1457268, complemented by the decision of 5 November 2018https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1463566, with ANACOM having concluded, namely that no situations have been detected of non-compliance with the guiding principles of the pricing for costs, on their affordability for all users, on transparency and non-discrimination.
In view of this analysis, ANACOM decided that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that these tariffs are excessively high.
Notwithstanding this, ANACOM will continue to monitor the prices applied by CTT for the parcels referred to above, in particular in the context of the assessment of tariff proposals submitted by the PSU and taking into account, namely, updated data relative to the costs associated to the items in question or other relevant data that may become available.
Consult:
- Approval of the assessment of cross-border single-piece parcel tariffs (2020) as under article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2018/644 and notification to the European Commission https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1549821
