CASE COMMENTS: POSTAL SERVICES – UNIVERSAL SERVICE

Postal services: The French NRA fines the incumbent operator for failing to include an offer for the shipment of small items at an affordable price (La Poste)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. ARCEP, dec. no. 2011-1453 of 20 December 2011 imposing a sanction on La Poste, pursuant to Article L. 5-3 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code. In a decision dated 20 December 2011, the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP) fined La Poste EUR 1 million for breach of its public service obligations. The regulator is penalising La Poste for failing to make any offer to send small items at an affordable price. This decision is worth highlighting

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Emmanuel Guillaume, Simon Daboussy, Postal services: The French NRA fines the incumbent operator for failing to include an offer for the shipment of small items at an affordable price (La Poste), 16 February 2012, Concurrences N° 1-2012, Art. N° 42346, p. 216

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