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ANCOM completes certain provisions in the field of the universal postal service

20.04.2015
 
The Romanian National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) launched yesterday, for public consultation, two draft decisions for amending and completing certain regulations regarding the provision of the universal postal service, among which the extension of the term for submitting the request for compensating the net cost of the provision of services within the scope of universal service.
In its capacity as a designated universal service provider, the National Company Romanian Post S.A. currently benefits from a series of rights, such as the one of requesting the compensation of the net cost of the provision of services within the scope of universal service. Through the public consultation launched today, ANCOM proposes extending the term for submitting the request for compensating the net cost and respectively for CNPR’s sending the separated financial accounts, from 1 July to 14 August of the year following the one for which they have been kept.
Moreover, taking into account the previous experience regarding the process of analyzing the compensation request and the duration of the process of collecting and validating the statistical data for the postal services market, ANCOM deems necessary extending the term within which it has the obligation to decide on the compensation of the net cost, and on the amount to be compensated, from 135 to 160 days from the reception of the compensation request from the designated universal service provider.
Furthermore, with a view to improving the legal framework in place, ANCOM proposes completing the secondary legislation in the postal services field, to include the general criteria for assessing the character of unfair burden of the net cost for the provision of universal service, taking into account the fact that, following the process of verifying the request for the compensation of the net cost submitted by CNPR for 2013, ANCOM analised a series of indicators regarding CNPR’s financial and competitive status and obtained relevant conclusions in establishing the set of criteria to be used for determining the extent to which the net cost is an unfair burden for which a designated universal service provider in Romania should be compensated.
The draft decisions under public consultation propose a series of amendments of the provisions in three existing decision, i.e. Decision no. 541/2013 on the terms and procedure for designating universal service providers in the postal services field and, respectively,Decision no. 1158/2013 on the designation of the National Company Romanian Post S.A. as a universal service provider in the postal services fieldand Decision no. 1159/2013 on the conditions for elaborating and auditing separate financial statements by the National Company Romanian Post S.A..
The two ANCOM draft decisions are available, in Romanian, here. The interested persons are invited to send their opinion and suggestions, by 11.05.2015, to the ANCOM headquarters in 2 Delea Noua Street, Bucharest 3, or directly to the ANCOM Registry Office or by means of the Authority’s regional offices. Comments may also be sent by fax to +40.372.845.402 or by e-mail to consultare@ancom.org.ro.
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