26 January 2012
ANCOM fined with RON 5,000 the company S.C. DIRECT POST SERVICES S.R.L., which provided postal services consisting of the clearance, sorting, transport and delivery to the mail boxes of addressees located in Bucharest of correspondence items weighing between 0 and 50 g, charging less than RON 2/item. The company thus breached the exclusive right reserved to the Romanian Post National Company (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, weighing less than 50 g and costing less than RON 2, irrespective of whether their delivery is accelerated or not, which consist of clearance, sorting, transport and delivery of domestic items of correspondence and distribution of the 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 fourth sanction ANCOM applied to a postal service provider for breaching the exclusive right reserved to CNPR in 2011.
Last year, ANCOM conducted 2,097control actions on all postal providers, which resulted in 137 warnings and 11 fines amounting to RON 66,000.
Out of these control actions, 1,486were conducted on the working points of the Romanian Post National Company, and resulted in 94 warnings and 2 fines amounting to RON 11,000.
The most frequent irregularities concern the non-compliance with the specific obligations imposed on the universal service provider, in the case of CNPR, respectively with the obligation to inform ANCOM on the occurrence of any change of the data under the notification, in the case of the other postal service providers.
