The 13th interdepartmental committee meet to discuss the european postal directive

France plans to require “the maintenance of the sector reserved” if “the correct operation of the postal public utility” is not guaranteed by the negotiations in progress around the European postal directive, according to an official statement of Matignon.

The thirteenth interdepartmental committee on Europe joined together Monday morning in Matignon considered the postal proposal for a Directive adopted by the European Commission last on October 18. This one relates to the opening to competition on January 1, 2009 of the “reserved” sector known as of the letters of less than 50 grams.

“France is attached to the existence of a postal universal service of high quality and at an accessible price on the whole of the own territory”, the services of the Dominique de Villepin Prime Minister underline in an official statement. Consequently, “it will aim at the time them negotiations to guarantee the correct operation of the postal public utility”.

“This requirement supposes the installation of a mode of effective and juridically protected financing of the postal public utility in France”. And “if these conditions are not met, France will be able to require the maintenance of “the reserved” sector known as”, underlines Matignon.

The interdepartmental committee also considered the advance of the negotiations on the “funds European of adjustment to universalization”. This funds aims at “curing the most brutal consequences of the reorganizations resulting from world competition in certain sectors of the economy”.

“The implementation of this funds within short times will bring a first answer to the French who ask that Europe protect them from the shocks of universalization”, Matignon estimates.