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Read MoreARCEP launches a public consultation on what information postal service users need and expect about universal service quality
One of ARCEP’s missions is to monitor proper provision of the universal postal service.
This entails ensuring that the service delivered by La Poste – the operator designated by law as the universal postal service provider – is of satisfactory quality, and that postal service users have all the information they need about it. Details of the various basic components of universal service quality are now available on La Poste’s website:
laposte-portail.cvf.fr/groupe_poste_nous_connaitre_service_universel_postal_16.html.
ARCEP is acting to maximize user benefit by launching a public consultation about any needs and expectations they may have in this area. The aim is to ascertain whether the information currently published by La Poste is satisfactory or whether further data should be provided.
ARCEP therefore wishes to collect suggestions from postal service users and the associations representing them about:
areas on which it might be expedient to publish information;
how often and in what form this information should be published.
Depending on the consultation findings, ARCEP will consider with La Poste the technical and economic practicability of providing fresh information on these topics so as to obtain a comprehensive set of indicators that usefully supplements the existing universal service road map.
EU delays postal service shakeup
The result is more important than the speed of the liberalisation, the German EU presidency has said, signalling that some EU member states will get more time to open up the postal services market than the 2009 deadline proposed by the European Commission.
Berlin had aimed to wrap up the talks on the postal plan by July, when Portugal takes over the EU’s chair, but the meeting of transport and telecommunication ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday (7 June) highlighted severe opposition in around 10 countries, such as France and Poland.
The new emerging timetable looks likely to list different dates for different countries, with the latest deadlines mooted between 2012 and 2013, according to observers.
Speaking to journalists after the debate, the German minister for economy, Michael Glos, tried to play down the differences, pointing out “There is some tension but I get the impression that there’s awareness that it [liberalisation] will be in favour of competition and European consumers.”
But it was precisely the potential consequences of competition for both postal workers and consumers in remote areas that the opponents of the 2009 plan cited as their main reason for rejecting it.
Mr Glos maintained that no country wanted to “derail the process” but he suggested that the compromise plan to be worked out by the German presidency and taken up by Portugal will propose that countries can “proceed at different speed.”
Read MorePRC Announces New Appointments Including First Inspector General
Dan G. Blair, chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, announced today the appointment of the Commission’s first inspector general, as required by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006.
Jack Callender, minority counsel to Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has been selected as the first Inspector General of the Postal Regulatory Commission, effective June 25, 2007.
Callender has served on the Government Reform Committee since 1999, and assisted the Committee in the drafting and enactment of the Act. He advised Mr. Davis and other House Members on postal law and policy throughout his long tenure with the Committee. Callender received a law degree from the University of Florida where he graduated with honors in1996.
In addition to Callender’s appointment, Chairman Blair said that Nanci E. Langley, former deputy staff director to Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Oversight of Government Management and Federal Workforce Subcommittee, has been selected as the Commission’s first director of public affairs and government relations. Langley assumed her post on April 2, 2007, after serving as Senator Akaka’s senior advisor on postal and civil service issues for 17 years and communications director for the late U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga for eight years. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
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