24 October 2011
24.10.2011
ANCOM applied a RON 10,000 fine to S.C. TOTAL POST SERVICES S.R.L., which provided – to the letter boxes of the addressees residing in Bucharest – postal services subject to clearance, sorting, transport and delivery of items of correspondence weighing between 0 and 50 g, charging less than RON 2/item. The company thus breached the exclusive right reserved to the National Company Romanian Post S.A. (CNPR) in its capacity as a universal service provider in the postal sector throughout Romania.
In view of ensuring the users’ right of access to the universal service, CNPR benefits among others from the exclusive right to provide, until 31 December 2012, postal services subject to items of correspondence, irrespective of whether their delivery is accelerated or not, weighing less than 50 g and costing less than RON 2, which consist of clearance, sorting, transport and delivery of domestic items of correspondence and distribution of items of correspondence sent from outside Romania to an address located on its territory. CNPR gained this exclusive right on 26 April 2009, following a procedure of designation of the universal service provider launched by ANCOM, in which CNPR and Posta Atlassib Curier Rapid submitted designation requests.
This is the third sanction ANCOM enforced, in 2011, on a postal operator for the breach of the exclusive right of CNPR.
Since the beginning of this year, ANCOM has conducted 515 control actions on the postal service providers throughout the country, others than the universal service provider, i.e. CNPR, which resulted in 47 sanctions, 38 of which were warnings and 9 fines amounting to RON 50,000. The main irregularities found concerned the breach of the right reserved to CNPR and the unauthorised provision of postal services. Thus, the smallest fine applied to the postal service providers was RON 5,000, whilst the largest reached RON 10,000.
Furthermore, the Authority has conducted this year 1,165 control actions at the CNPR working points, which resulted in 78 sanctions, i.e. 76 warnings and 2 fines amounting to RON 11,000.