The Universal Postal Service after the Lisbon Treaty: a True Step Forward?

Fratini Alessandra
Additional contact information
Fratini Alessandra: FratiniVergano - European Lawyers

Review of Network Economics, 2011, vol. 10, issue 3, 18

Abstract: The article analyses the impact of the Lisbon Treaty, entered into force in December 2009, on the provision of postal services and especially on universal services obligations. Through the amendment of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Lisbon Treaty consolidates and develops the established principles of EU law, modifies the institutional structure and decision-making process of the EU, and introduces new services of general interest-related provisions in EU primary law. However, will such modifications effectively have an impact on the provision of postal services, and/or on universal postal services?

Keywords: postal services; EU law; Lisbon Treaty; universal service obligations; services of general (economic) interest; article 14 FEU; protocol 26 FEU; article 36 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2202/1446-9022.1229 (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:rneart:v:10:y:2011:i:3:n:8

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/rne/html

DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1229

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Network Economics is currently edited by Lukasz Grzybowski

More articles in Review of Network Economics from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().