Abstract
On 25 May 2016, the European Commission published its proposals for a regulation on intra-EU cross-border parcels which would, if approved, be directly applicable in all EU Member States. The proposals were based on an analysis of the issues facing consumers and e-retailers buying and distributing goods across EU Member State borders. They took account of the Commission’s 2013 Green Paper, a subsequent roadmap and public consultation and various Commission studies.
This paper was finalized following the reaching of common positions by the Council and Parliament, but before the expected Trilogue discussions and takes into account developments up to 21 July 2017.
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Terminal rates are the wholesale payments that USPs make to each other, which are negotiated by the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
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That made the definition wider than the definition of a parcel in the Postal Services Directive, but less wide than the Universal Postal Union definition. This weight limit also corresponds to the threshold beyond which a parcel cannot be carried by a single person. In addition, Article 2 defines a “parcel delivery service provider” as “an undertaking that provides one or more parcel delivery services”.
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Case Comp/C-1/38.170, OJ L 56 of 24.2.2004, p.76. This was an agreement on remuneration via terminal rates of the delivery of cross-border mail between 17 USPs (letters and packets up to 2Â kg in weight).
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Groves, P. (2018). The 2016 European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Cross-Border Parcels: An Assessment of the Objectives, Background, Issues and Potential Impacts. In: Parcu, P., Brennan, T., Glass, V. (eds) The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70672-6_9
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