 Market Regulations and USO in the Revised Swiss Postal Act: Provisions and AuthoritiesChristian Jaag and Martin Maegli A chapter in Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy, 2015, pp 301-311 from Springer Abstract: Abstract New postal legislation in Switzerland entered into force on October 2012. It encompasses a new Postal Act as well as a new Postal Organization Act. The reform of the Postal Act covers three main areas. The first is market regulation, which applies to all operators symmetrically. It includes the replacement of the former licensing system by compulsory registration and provisions on ex-post regulation of mutual access to PO boxes and address data. Second, it restates the definition of the Universal Service Obligation (USO), with different provisions for services offered to private and business customers and distinguishing between the accessibility of postal and financial services. Third, the new Postal Act defines a new institutional design, i.e. the division of tasks, organization and responsibility of public authorities in the postal sector. The Postal Organization Act governs Swiss Post’s range of activity, its corporatization and the spin-off of its financial services branch PostFinance. Keywords: Post Office; Price Regulation; Postal Service; Reserved Area; Universal Service (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-319-12874-0_23 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12874-0_23 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy from Springer |
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