Concern over EU postal legislation

Ten European postal service providers, including Maltapost, have urged the European Commission to take a balanced approach when drawing up future postal legislation. Their plea follows the publication of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers study on the Impact...

Ten European postal service providers, including Maltapost, have urged the European Commission to take a balanced approach when drawing up future postal legislation.

Their plea follows the publication of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers study on the Impact On Universal Service Of The Full Market Accomplishment Of The Postal Internal Market in 2009.

The survey states that the opening of the market will have an impact on the operator providing the universal service and on the universal postal service itself in most of the member states. It concludes that these member states need to implement measures to guarantee sustainability.

The 10 European countries are Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Spain, which account for over 50 per cent of the EU population.

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