29 March 2011
29.03.2011
ANCOM applied a RON 10,000 fine to S.C. TCE POST S.R.L., which provided, at a national level, postal services consisting 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 (CNPR) in its capacity as a Universal Service provider in the postal sector throughout Romania. TCE was subject to a control as a result of a complaint submitted by CNPR.
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. The criteria considered at designation concerned the guaranteed coverage of the national territory, including the density of the access and contact points of the postal networks operated by the requesters or by other postal service providers with which the requesters have concluded contracts therefor; previous experience in providing the postal services within the scope of Universal Service for which the designation was requested, or other postal services; the technical, economic and financial capacity; the capacity of ensuring an even tariff level for the services within the scope of universal service provided countrywide, as well as the net cost associated to the provision of postal services within the scope of Universal Service for which the designation was requested.
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