Anna Möller Boivie, Managing Director (Stockholm) at Copenhagen Economics, discusses proposals to change the EU Postal Service Directive:
- Who and what are covered by the Postal Services Directive
- Parcels are part of the USO (universal service obligation) in some markets
- Competition in the parcels sector - including domestic and cross-border
- Should parcels be regulated?
- Why the EC has a special interest in cross-border delivery in the European Union
- Publishing wholesale parcel pricing
- Regulation covering all carriers (of a certain size) - not just postal operators
- Amazon getting caught in the definition of a postal operator - and therefore being subject to regulation
- Standardising regulation and postal market definitions - including widening definition to include other operators such as Amazon
- Bottlenecks and market failures
- Next steps for the Postal Services Directive
- Environmental issues and the Postal Services Directive
- Letter delivery frequency and speed