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O nouă modalitate de stabilire a tarifelor pentru serviciul universal poștal pentru următorii 3 ani a fost adoptată
16.12.2021
During its most recent Consultative Council online meeting, ANCOM adopted new tariff regulation measures for a series of services which the National Company Romanian Post (CNPR) was designated to provide in its capacity as universal service provider in the postal field until 31 December 2024. The adopted measures are based on tariff ceilings and price cap formulae and establish the conditions under which these apply.
Adopted regulatory measures
According to the regulations, CNPR will set its tariffs for the services within the scope of universal service which it was designated to provide without exceeding however the maximum limit established according to the adopted methodology.
When setting the tariffs for the provided services, CNPR will need to take into account the consumer price index, as well as elements reflecting the consumer price variation and the productivity of CNPR compared to the productivity of the national economy. To observe the limit imposed by ANCOM, CNPR will have to prudently set the tariffs to be applied, keeping into account inclusively the period in which these tariffs will apply, as well as the forecasted traffic volume for each of the categories of services included in the scope of the postal universal service.
Postal services covered by the tariff regulation
The postal services within the scope of universal service covered by the tariff regulation adopted by ANCOM are the following:
a) clearance, sorting, transport and delivery of domestic and cross-border postal items weighing up to (including) 2 kg, dealing with:
1. correspondence items, except for bulk correspondence items;
2. printed matter items, except for bulk printed matter items;
3. small packages, according to the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention and Letter-post Regulation, except for bulk small packages;
b) clearance, sorting, transport and delivery of domestic and cross-border postal parcels weighing up to (including) 10 kg, except for bulk parcels;
c) service for registered items dealing with the domestic and cross-border postal items weighing up to (including) 2 kg provided under letter a);
d) service for insured items dealing with:
1. the domestic and cross-border postal items weighing up to (including) 2 kg provided under letter a);
2. domestic and cross-border postal parcels weighing up to (including) 10 kg, except for bulk parcels.
CNPR’s obligations
CNPR has the obligation to notify ANCOM on all tariffs levied for the provision of services within the scope of postal universal service by 30 March of the year following that in which the the tariffs were charged, while the Authority has 60 days at its disposal to verify them. In case of any change of the tariffs set by CNPR according to the adopted methodology, the provider will notify the public and the Authority on the respective tariffs at least 30 days before applying them.
If the information submitted by CNPR reveals a difference between the tariffs resulted from the ANCOM checking and the tariffs charged by CNPR resulted by applying the calculation methodology, CNPR will adjust the postal services tariffs in the following year so that the charged difference could be compensated.
Additional information
Access to postal universal service is the right of every person to benefit from the uninterrupted provision of certain postal services (the services included in the scope of universal service), at a certain quality level, at any point throughout Romania, and at affordable tariffs.
ANCOM designated the National Company Romanian Post S.A. (CNPR) as universal service provider by the ANCOM President’s Decision no.1363/2019 for the provision accross national territory of all services within the scope of universal service for the 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2024 timeframe.
According to the legislation in force, respectively GEO no. 13/2013 on postal services, the tariffs charged by the universal service provider for the services within the scope of universal service which it has the obligation to provide must be affordable, irrespective of the geographic location, transparent, non-discriminatory and cost-oriented, and must stimulate the provision of an efficient universal service.
ANCOM may impose tariff ceilings and price cap formulae on the tariffs charged for the services within the scope of universal service, the means for setting or changing the tariffs for the services within the scope of universal service which the universal service provider has the obligation to provide and may set single-piece tariffs for the services within the scope of universal service.
The universal service provider has the obligation to make publicly available the tariffs charged for the services within the scope of universal service it has the obligation to provide, as well as any changes thereto, at least 30 days before the date on which these enter into force, under the conditions set by the regulatory authority.
