Postal sector: France implements EC Directives on postal services (Law 20 May 2005)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Law No. 2005-516 of 20 May 2005 on the regulation of postal activities By adopting on 20 May 2005 the Law on the regulation of postal activities, the French Parliament attempted to meet the twofold objective set by the government in presenting the draft text to it, namely: "to guarantee the universal service mission entrusted to La Poste in a context of gradual opening up to competition". In fact, without analysing the part relating to the transformation of the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications (ART) into the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), which does not fall within the scope of the present column