Do We Need Regulation for Parcel Lockers?

Xavier Ambrosini, Alice Bermont-Vialatte and Marine Lefort ()
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Xavier Ambrosini: Strategy Department, Parcel and Mail Division
Alice Bermont-Vialatte: Legal Expert in the Competition Department, Direction of Institutional Affairs, Competition, and Regulation
Marine Lefort: Economist in the Department “Doctrine Et Modélisation”, Direction of Institutional Affairs, Competition, and Regulation

A chapter in Postal Strategies, 2023, pp 101-113 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The parcel market offers a number of options for delivery such as specific time windows, pick-up points, and parcel lockers. The parcel lockers sector is growing in Europe, with some countries more active than others depending on consumers’ habits and preferences. Networks are expanding and innovations are developing. After defining an essential facility and showing that lockers are the only one way to deliver parcels, we show that they cannot be considered as an essential facility. We question the need for ex ante regulation of access given the dynamic of the sector, the effect on innovation of such regulation, and the absence of evidence of the inefficiency of ex post competition law.

Keywords: Parcel locker; Access; Regulation; Essential facility; Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_8

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