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Momentum grows for major postal operators backing EU liberalisation plan
On the eve of the debate over postal opening, Deutsche Post (Germany), Posten AB (Sweden), Suomen Posti Oyj (Finland), TNT (The Netherlands) and Royal Mail (UK) are joined by Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Jürgen R. Thumann, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), and Paul R. Kleindorfer, Professor at INSEAD and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In this joint event taking place in Brussels today, the group intends to demonstrate that full market opening must take place in 2009 to allow postal operators to benefit from changes that are shaking the global communications market. It must be seen as an opportunity to restructure organisations for increased operational, service efficiency and customer-orientation. Furthermore, a modern and flexible universal service to the benefit of residential and small business users can be maintained in an open market.
Read MoreRoyal Mail, TNT, Deutsche Post, Posten, Finnish Post back EU postal reforms
The chief executives of Deutsche Post AG, Sweden’s Posten AB, Finnish post office Suomen Posti Oyj, TNT NV and the UK’s Royal Mail have said that they believe postal market liberalisation is already working in their countries and that they are ‘ready for full market opening in 2009’.
The chief executives of the five groups, which distribute some 60 pct of postal mail volume in Europe, will attend a dinner in Brussels tonight where EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy is expected to speak about the commission’s plan to liberalise postal markets.
Klaus Zumwinkel, chief executive of the Deutsche Post, said ‘Liberalisation that allows healthy competition is the only way forward. We are ready to embrace it’.
The European Commission will announce the next step in its liberalisation of Europe’s postal services tomorrow, with deliveries of letters under 50 grams open to competition by 2009, said EU spokesman Oliver Drewes earlier today.
The commission will debate the proposals before announcing plans to free up the market for letters in Europe, following on from its 2002 directive on parcels and letters over 50 grams.
Currently, historical operators may still hold national monopolies on letters weighing less than 50 grams in Europe.
Read MoreEU to take next step in postal reform, national monopolies must cease by 2009
The European Commission will announce the next step in its liberalisation of Europe’s postal services tomorrow, with deliveries of letters under 50 grams open to competition by 2009, said Oliver Drewes, spokesman for EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy.
The commission will debate the proposals at its weekly meeting tomorrow before announcing plans to free up the market for letters in Europe, following on from its 2002 directive on parcels and letters over 50 grams.
Currently, historical operators may still hold national monopolies on letters weighing less than 50 grams in Europe.
According to a report in Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, which says it has seen the proposals, the UK, the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries and Germany have been the most successful in terms of ending the monopoly of traditional postal services providers and introducing competition.
The Belgian and French post offices are widely expected to be announced as the worst offenders in liberalising markets.
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