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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9403
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/postal services

Markus Ferber suggests limiting scope of universal postal service to unitary mail despatches by private individuals

Brussels, 10/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - In his draft report on revision of the postal directive (97/67/EC) presented at the end of March to the members of the European Parliament's committee on transport, Rapporteur Markus Ferber (EPP-ED, Germany) comes up with an innovation. He suggests restricting the scope of the universal postal service (UPS) to single postal items sent by private individuals once the sector is fully liberalised. In October 2006, the Commission suggested early 2009 should...

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