Liberalisation of Postal Services and Their Financing in the Future

Matjaz Andric

Management, 2007, vol. 2, issue 4, 333-344

Abstract: This article analyses the issues in the process of the EU postal services market liberalisation, which is in the final stage of its legal basis drafting process. The acceptance of the legal basis by competent EU institutions will largely define the postal services market liberalisation method, which is to be carried out by all EU Member States in a given period of time. For the final step of the liberalisation the authors (eu expert bodies) of the legal basis draft proposal have managed to maintain a relatively high standard of universal postal services (delivery every working day and at least five days a week for EU addresses, and short delivery times) and in addition to these also foreseen various financing methods. The latter are based on solutions taken from other sectors where the liberalisation process has been recently concluded and where a sector is also subject to the universal service obligation. Even though those financing models are more or less effective in other sectors, they have been subject to many concerns in a public debate on changes in postal sector. The key concerns relate to the foreseen mechanisms of universal service financing, the regulation of access to the public postal network, and the financing of the public postal network maintenance as well as development. The best way to overcome partially unproductive public debates on the issue is to start making factual and precise estimates of the effect of changes presented in this article by applying simplified financing mechanisms of the universal service. These mechanisms will need the input of specific data which will take into the account all relevant traits of every single EU Member State.

Keywords: liberalisation; universal service; directive; financing model; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISSN/1854-4231/2_333-344.pdf full text in Slovene (application/pdf)
http://www.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISSN/1854-4231/2_369-371.pdf abstract in English (application/pdf)

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:mgt:youmng:v:2:y:2007:i:4:p:333-344

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.mng.fm-kp.si

Access Statistics for this article

Management is currently edited by Klemen Kavcic

More articles in Management from University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alen Jezovnik ().