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Making Licensing Less Burdensome improving opportunities for global trade

Making Licensing Less Burdensome improving opportunities for global trade . Mark van der Horst Chairman of the European Express Association’s Competition and Market Reform Committee . Who are we ? . Global and local express and courier companies Providing value added service to business

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Making Licensing Less Burdensome improving opportunities for global trade

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  1. Making Licensing Less Burdensomeimproving opportunities for global trade Mark van der Horst Chairman of the European Express Association’s Competition and Market Reform Committee

  2. Who are we ? • Global and local express and courier companies • Providing value added service to business • Operating global networks - hub and spoke • Over 750.000 people employed worldwide • Moving over 20 million items per day in over 200 countries and territories • The companies that get your urgent documents and parcels delivered around the globe

  3. What are the burdens ? • The main burdens are of a financial nature • Costly licensing fees based on revenue and/or equally costly taxes on shipments • % charge based on revenue • Contributions to the cost of the national postal operator • The cost usually end up being charged to the user, making trade more expensive 8

  4. A way forward…. • Licensing to be clearly impartial • Should not be a source of income • Aim at fair competition between operators • Support development of competition without affecting quality of public services • Not result in a cost for the local business involved in global trade 8

  5. More information…… • The EEA has identified the most significant barriers to trade, related to domestic regulation and market access. • …Market Access Barriers by Country… • Can be found at….. • http://www.euroexpress.org/CMR/TRADE/Market%20Access%20Barriers 8

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