Tag: France

ARCEP (France) issues the first postal licence to Adrexo (Groupe Ouest France)

Posted by | Jun 13, 2006 | |

Under the postal regulation law of May 2005, ARCEP is responsible for issuing licences for items of correspondence to La Poste’s competitors. This morning, ARCEP issued the first licence to Adrexo (subsidiary of SPIR, Groupe Ouest France) to offer services in France, at a national level, excluding Corsica. The authorisation regime concerns items of correspondence open to competition, i.e. items of correspondence with a unit weight greater than 50 g or a price greater than EUR 1.325, that is two-and-a-half times the base tariff.

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DHL orchestrates logistics for EMI Music France

Posted by | Jun 13, 2006 | |

For the next five years, DHL Exel Supply Chain will be responsible for co-ordinating the logistics for EMI’s CDs, DVDs and POS advertising materials. More than 30 million albums will be delivered each year for the company’s twelve record labels. Production and packaging of the CDs and DVDs destined for the European market, is centralised in Uden, in the Netherlands. DHL has taken over EMI’s logistic processes, which until now were managed by another provider at the site in Saint-Ouen-L’Aumône, and integrated all 52 employees.

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French La Poste decision reversed

Posted by | Jun 8, 2006 | |

European Union regulators were wrong to allow the French state-run postal service to help a unit expand into express delivery in the 1980s and ’90s, an EU court ruled Wednesday in a case brought by FedEx and DHL International. The regulators’ conclusion in 1997 that France did not provide illegal subsidies by allowing La Poste to grant logistical support to its Chronopost subsidiary was unjustified, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg ruled. Industry groups have complained that former monopolies like La Poste have used government aid, which is intended to support nationwide letter delivery, to buy competitors in the express business. The case at the Court of First Instance, the second-highest European court after the European Court of Justice, was brought by express mail carriers FedEx, DHL and Crie, as well as industry group Union Francaise de L’Express.

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Brussels launches French probe into savings banks

Posted by | Jun 8, 2006 | |

The European Commission yesterday reignited its long-running feud with France over alleged illegal subsidies and unfair advantages granted to the country’s savings banks. The Brussels-based regulator suspects the French government could have violated European Union rules in its dealings with Credit Mutuel, La Poste and Caisse d’Epargne – the three lenders allowed to distribute popular, state-subsidised savings books known as Livret A and Livret Bleu. It has launched a formal probe into the matter. An inquiry will be a boost for the group of rival French banks – including Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Banque Populaire – which have spent years trying to break what they claim is an unfair oligopoly among the savings banks.

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