Deputies want Ceska Posta to be monopoly again
Czech state-run postal services operator Ceska posta should be the exclusive provider of direct mailing again, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote on Saturday.
An amendment to the law on postal service is now waiting for its final debate in the Chamber of Deputies.
If the bill is approved, Ceska posta would get rid of its main competitor Mediaservis, which has roughly a 10 per cent market share at present.
The European Union has for several years regarded the Czech market for direct mailing as open to all companies. Ceska posta says, according to the daily, that the canceling of the monopoly in this segment has never been included in any law.
Ceska posta spokesman Ladislav Vancura said the company was not against the market liberalisation but feared that competition would only enter lucrative locations, that is, large towns.
The Czech anti-monopoly office UOHS will be closely watching the process of approving the amendment to the law on postal service, Kristian Chalupa of the UOHS press section said.
