Obligations of Postal Service Providers and the Instruments Available to the President of the Office of Electronic Communications Regarding the Identification and Fighting of Monopolistic Practices in the Postal Service Market in View of the Resoluti Cover Image

Obowiązki operatorów pocztowych oraz instrumenty przysługujące Prezesowi UKE w zakresie wykrywania i zwalczania praktyk monopolistycznych na rynku pocztowym w świetle rozporządzenia Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2018/644
Obligations of Postal Service Providers and the Instruments Available to the President of the Office of Electronic Communications Regarding the Identification and Fighting of Monopolistic Practices in the Postal Service Market in View of the Resoluti

Author(s): Elżbieta Małecka
Subject(s): National Economy, Law on Economics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: President of the Of fi ce of Electronic Communications, Postal Service Providers

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the Digital Single Market is to increase the share of e-commerce in the total GDP of the EU. High prices and difficulties in cross-border package delivery have been acknowledged as one of the greatest obstacles for the development of e-commerce throughout the European Union. Therefore, since 2016, the European Commission has been working on developing a resolution aimed at increasing price transparency and strengthening regulatory supervision over the services of cross-border package delivery in a way enabling the consumers and retailers to use lower delivery prices and favorable options of returning packages. The regulations of the Resolution of the European Parliament and Council (EU) 2018/644 of 18/04/2018 on crossborder services of package delivery, Journal of Laws, L 112 of 02/05/2018 implemented, inter alia, increased reporting requirements for the providers taking part in the process of delivering cross-border packages. These requirements are to enable domestic regulatory bodies to perform more effective monitoring of the market of such packages, in order to allow better identification of potential difficulties in its functioning. The Resolution provided also the procedure and assessment criteria of the level of affordability of service prices by domestic regulatory bodies

  • Issue Year: 8/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 43-50
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish