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Legal aspects of public procurement and procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal ser

Legal aspects of public procurement and procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors. The postal sector’s perspective . Alessandra Fratini, Chair PostEurop Public Procurement WG Public Hearing JURI, 30 May 2012, Brussels. About PostEurop.

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Legal aspects of public procurement and procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal ser

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  1. Legal aspects of public procurement and procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors The postal sector’s perspective Alessandra Fratini, Chair PostEurop Public Procurement WG Public Hearing JURI, 30 May 2012, Brussels

  2. About PostEurop • PostEurop , an officially recognised “Restricted Union” of the UPU (Universal Postal Union), is the Association representing the interests of European public postal operators • PostEurop’s Members represent 2.1 million employees across Europe and deliver to 800 million customers daily through over 175.000 million counters Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  3. Postal sector significantly changed • Volumes turn-down point to mail structural decline • Fast-moving ICT trends are changing business and consumers’ behaviours • Post is part of a wider communications sector, where physical mail is increasingly being supplemented by multi-channel delivery • Competition (from both the demand and the supply sides) is more and more coming from electronic messaging services Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  4. Modernisation of EU Public Procurement • COM announced that “public procurement legislation [...] needs to be revised and modernised in order to make it better suited to dealing with the evolving political, social and economic context” (21 December 2011) • PostEurop regrets that the COM proposal takes no notice of the fundamental regulatory and market developments occurred in the postal sector Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  5. Modernisation of EU Public Procurement Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  6. Modernisation of EU Public Procurement Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  7. Postal markets are de jure open to competition • The liberalisation process initiated in 1997 accomplished full market opening on 31st December 2010 Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  8. Postal markets are de facto very competitive • The Article 30 procedures shows an increasing number of postal/other services excluded from the scope of the Utilities Directive Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  9. Removing postal sector from scope • Liberalisation process • Introduction of fully-fledged sector-specific regulation • Evolution of the market since 2004 Rationale for maintaining postal sector within the scope of the Utilities Directive NO LONGER APPLICABLE Public Hearing 30 May 2012

  10. a.fratini@fratinivergano.eu Rue de Haerne, 42 – 1040 Brussels Tel. +32 2 648 21 61

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