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ANCOM and Postal Industry Agreed on Changes in the Universal Postal Service Sector

14.04.2014
 
The Romanian National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) and the postal industry agreed on amending certain procedural stages and timeframes relating to the compensation of the universal service net cost.
The changes concern the ANCOM Decision no. 541/2013 on the conditions and procedure for the designation of the universal service providers in the postal sector, which inclusively regulates the net cost compensation.
Thus, the Authority and the industry representatives agreed on contracting into a single 135-day timeframe the timelines provided for in Decision no. 541/2013, namely the 45 days term for determining the net cost and the 90 days term for establishing the amount of the providers’ contributions to the compensation fund and/or, as applicable, for determining the amount of the tax applied to the postal end-users, including the stage of issuance of the corresponding decisions.
Another change envisages the possibility of suspending the timeframe corresponding to the analysis of the net cost compensation request - until the reception of the necessary information - if the documents and information that the universal service provider made available to ANCOM in view of net cost compensation do not entirely reflect the required minimum elements. The Authority imposes under the decision a maximum 5-day term for the universal service provider to transmit the data requested by ANCOM.
The decision will come into force within three days from its publication in the Romanian Official Journal.
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