Activities of Lucy ANDERSON related to 2016/0149(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) The market for cross-border parcel delivery services is diverse and complex, with different providers offering different services and prices depending on weight, size and format of the items sent as well as destination, added value features, such as traceability solutions, and the number of items sent. In most Member States, universal service providers do not have a majority share of the parcel delivery market. That diversity makes parcel delivery services hard to compare between different providers, both in terms of quality and price. Furthermore, low volume senders, such as small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals are often not aware of the existence of different parcel delivery services offered.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) In order to improve the affordability of cross-border parcel delivery services, especially for users in remote or sparsely populated areas, it is necessary to improve the transparency of ~~public lists of tariffs~~tariffs and terminal rates, for a limited set of cross-border parcel delivery services offered by ~~universa~~parcel service providers, which are mostly used by small and medium- sized enterprises and individuals. Transparency ~~of public lists~~ is also necessary to address the issue of high tariffs of cross-border delivery services and to reduce, where applicable, unjustified tariff differences between ~~national~~domestic and cross-border parcel delivery services.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) In most Member States there are several providers who provide domestic parcel delivery services, while only a few of those providers also provide cross- border parcel delivery services. In this context, it is essential to ensure, in order to safeguard and promote effective competition and to protect users, transparent and non-discriminatory access to the services and infrastructure necessary for the provision of cross- border parcel delivery services.deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) Currently, postal services are regulated by Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council49 . Thisat Directive establishes common rules governing the provision of postal services and the universal postal service in the Union. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on national universal services and does not address regulatory oversight of parcel delivery service providers, transparency of tariffs and terminal rates for certain cross-border parcel delivery services, the assessment of the affordability of tariffs for certain cross- border parcel delivery services and transparent and non-discriminatory access to certain cross-border parcel delivery services and/or infrastructure. This Regulation therefore complements, insofar as cross-border parcel delivery services are concerned, the rules set out in Directive 97/67/ECThis Regulation therefore complements, insofar as cross-border parcel delivery services are concerned, the rules set out in Directive 97/67/EC. However, the provisions of this Regulation are without prejudice to the rights and guarantees set out in that Directive including in particular the continued provision of a universal postal service to users. _________________ 49 Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service (OJ L 1, 21.1.1998, p 14 - 25).

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) Therefore, it is important to provide a clear definition of parcels and parcel delivery services and to specify which postal items are covered by that definition. This concerns in particular postal items, other than items of correspondence, which because of their weight are commonly used for sending goods and merchandise. This Regulation should therefore cover, in line with consistent practice, postal items weighing up to 31.5 kg, as heavier items cannot be handled by a single average individual without mechanical aids. In line with current practice and Directive 97/67/EC, each step in the postal chain, i.e. clearance, sorting and delivery should be considered parcel delivery services. THowever, established freight or transport alone that is not undertaken in conjunction with one of those steps should fall outside the scope of parcel delivery services as it can in this case be assumed that this activity is part of the transport sectorgistics providers, in contrast with individual independent subcontractors of the parcel delivery service provider, should not be covered by the scope of this Regulation.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) Terminal rates are based on multilateral and bilateral agreements between unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service providers and ensure that the destination unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service provider is remunerated for the costs of the service provided to the originating unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service provider. Terminal rates should be defined in such a way that it includes both terminal dues, as defined in point 15 of Article 2 of Directive 97/67/EC that are applied for letter mail items and inward land rates that are applied to parcels.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) It is necessary that national regulatory authorities have knowledge and information for statistical purposes about parcel delivery service providers active on the market. However, in order to limit the administrative burden for small parcel delivery service providers who are only active on a national or regional market, a threshold should be applied, based on the number of persons working for the service provider and involved in the provision of parcel delivery services, but also allowing for the proper inclusion in the threshold of those working in the sector other than on a full-time, permanent basis.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) When providing information to the national regulatory authority, it should be taken into account that parcel delivery service providers may have already provided certain information to the same national regulatory authority. Parcel delivery services are important for small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals and they should be able to compare easily between different providers. Therefore, the services for which tariffs should be provided by unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service providers should be clearly defined. Those tariffs should be published by the Commission on a dedicated webpage and should, together with the confidential regular provision of the underlying terminal rates, constitute the basis for the national regulatory authorities to assess the affordability of tariffs for cross-border parcel delivery services. Parcel delivery service providers other than universal service providers may voluntarily provide, in a comparable form, their national regulatory authority with the tariffs for the same items provided that such items are delivered at the home or the premises of the addressee.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Maria GRAPINI, István UJHELYI, Olga SEHNALOVÁ, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Miltiadis KYRKOS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2 a) Due to the international nature of postal and parcel sector, the further development of European and international technical standards is important for the benefit of users and the environment, and to broaden market opportunities for businesses.

2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) When national regulatory authorities annually assess the affordability of tariffs, they should base themselves on objective criteria, such as the domestic tariffs of the originating universal service providers and the destination universal service providers and the level of terminal rates. Those common criteria may be complemented by other criteria of particular relevance for explaining the tariffs in question, such as specific transportation or handling costs and bilateral volumes between different cross- border parcel delivery service providersparticularly take into account individual and small and medium-sized enterprise users living or situated in remote or sparsely populated areas, as well as such users that regularly use parcel delivery services and individual users with little disposable income.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Maria GRAPINI, István UJHELYI, Olga SEHNALOVÁ, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Miltiadis KYRKOS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 b (new)

(2 b) Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union provides that everyone whose rights under Union law are violated shall have the right to an effective remedy and Article 16 of the Charter recognises the freedom to run a business in accordance with Union and national law and practices;

2017/05/16
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) Uniform tariffs for cross-border deliveries to two or more Member States may be important in the interest of protecting regional and social cohesion. In this context it should be considered that e-commerce offers new opportunities for sparsely populated areas to participate in the economic life. It is therefore necessary to take any uniform tariffs fully into account when assessing the affordability of parcel delivery services.deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) Significant differences between domestic and cross-border tariffs for parcel delivery services should be justified by objective criteria, such as additional costs for transport and a reasonable profit margin. ~~Universal service providers providing parcel delivery services should be required to provide such justification without delay.~~

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) UnParcel deliver~~sal~~y service providers providing parcel delivery services may conclude multilateral and bilateral agreements on terminal rates and may set up other programmes to facilitate the interconnectivity of their delivery networks. ~~For reasons of non- discrimination, competing parcel delivery service providers shall be granted equal access to the terminal rates applicable between par~~It is important that any practices under multilateral agreements. It may be justified that terminal rates payable by third-party parcel delivery service providers, in some cases, exceed those payable by universal service providers that are parties to such agreements. This may be the case where the parties to a mulin this respect that may be in breach of EU competition law principles and the provisions of Directive 97/67/EC are properly investilgateral agreement on terminal rates are able to demonstrate that the cost of setting up, operating and administering the agreement, the extra cost incurred by accepting and handling items from non-designated parcel delivery service providers and other such costs are not covered by the terminal rates payable by the third-party service provider in the originating Member Stated and addressed by Member States, national regulatory authorities and by the European Commission in a timely and effective manner.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) In practice and for operational reasons, the point at which access should be provided is the inward office of exchange, which is an office or a facility determined by universal service providers in the destination Member State for handing over postal items other than items of correspondence.deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

(21) As markets for parcel delivery services are changing fast, the Commission should re-assess the efficiency and effectiveness of this Regulation and submit a regular report to the European Parliament and the Council. That report should be accompanied, where appropriate, by legislative proposals for review to the European Parliament and the Council. That report should be produced following consultation with all appropriate stakeholders including the social dialogue committee for the postal sector.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22

(22) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the obligation for parcel delivery providers to submit information to national regulatory authorities, ~~implementing~~delegated powers should be conferred on the Commission to establish a form for the submission of such information. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council50 . _________________ 50 Regulation (EU) 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13 - 18).

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25

(25) Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to ~~establish the regulatory principles and rules necessary to improve regulatory oversight, to improve transparency of prices and establish certain principles as regards~~foster better user accessibilty to efficient and affordable cross-border parcel delivery services ~~that should support competition~~, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of its scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

TIn order to foster better user accessibility to efficient and affordable cross-border parcel delivery services, this Regulation establishes specific ~~rule~~provisions, in addition to the ~~rule~~provisions set out in Directive 97/67/EC, concerning:

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) transparent and non- discriminatory access to certain cross- border parcel delivery services and/or infrastructure.~~deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(c a) information and price transparency for users of cross-border parcel delivery services;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c b (new)

(c b) promotion of further harmonisation of relevant quality of service and technical standards.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 a (new)

Article 1 a Member States may adopt or maintain in force more stringent provisions than those laid down in this Regulation for the benefit of users and where such provisions foster better user accessibility to efficient and affordable cross-border parcel delivery services.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point -a (new)

(-a) "parcel" means a postal item with a weight not exceeding 31,5 kg; an item of correspondence alone shall not be considered a parcel;

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) "parcel delivery services" means services involving the clearance, sorting, transport or distribution of postal items other than items of correspondence; transport alone shall not be considered a parcel delivery service; delivery of such items exceeding 31,5 kg shall not be considered a parcel delivery servicearcels;

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(b a) "subcontractor" means an undertaking that provides the clearance, sorting, transport or distribution of parcels for the parcel delivery service provider;

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Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Biljana BORZAN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) "terminal rates" means payments from the originating unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service provider to the destination unparcel deliver~~sal~~y service provider and/or intermediaries where applicable for the costs of cross- border parcel delivery services in the destination Member State.;

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

(c a) "trader" means any natural person or any legal person, irrespective of whether privately or publicly owned, who is acting, including through any other person acting in his name or on his behalf, for purposes relating to his trade, business, craft or profession in relation to parcel delivery services covered by this Regulation.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) the name of the parcel delivery service provider, its legal status and form, registration number in a trade or similar register, VAT identification number, the address of the establishment and a contact person;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) the ~~nature of the services offered by the provider~~detailed description of the parcel delivery services offered by the parcel delivery services provider, including precise information on options for users;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) the parcel delivery service provider's general terms and conditions ~~of sale~~for parcel delivery services, including a detailed description of the complaints procedure for users.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2

2. In case of any change concerning information referred to in the first subparagraph of this Article, parcel delivery service providers shall inform the national regulatory authority of this change within 30 days.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

3. By 3~~1 March~~0 April of each calendar year, all parcel delivery service providers shall submit the following information to the national regulatory authority of the Member State in which they are established:

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the annual turnover in parcel delivery services for the previous calendar year in the Member State in which the parcel delivery service provider is established, broken down in parcel delivery services relating to ~~national~~domestic, incoming and outgoing cross- border postal items;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) the number of persons working ~~for the~~both directly and indirectly for the parcel delivery services provider and involved in the provision of parcel delivery services in the Member State in which the provider is established inover the previous calendar year; this information shall include quarterly breakdowns by reference to employment status, including whether full-time, part-time, temporary, on a non- guaranteed hours basis or self-employed and shall also cover persons working for subcontractors or companies to which the parcel delivery services provider outsources clearance, sorting, transport or distribution of parcels.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point c

(c) the number of p~~ostal items other than items of correspondence and not exceeding 31,5 kg handled~~arcels handled over the previous calendar year in the Member State in which the p~~rovider is established in th~~arcels delivery service preovi~~ous calendar year~~der is established, broken down into ~~national~~domestic, incoming and outgoing cross- border postal items.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall, by means of an implementing act, establish a form for the submission of the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 9adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 9a in order to supplement this Regulation by laying down a form for the submission of the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 5

5. The national regulatory authorities may impose information requirements additional to those referred to in paragraphs 1 and ~~2 where~~3 provided that they are necessary and proportionate to ensure conformity with this Regulation.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 6

6. AThis Article shall not apply to any parcel delivery service provider which ~~employs few~~, together with an ~~50 persons shall not be subject to the obligat~~y subsidiaries and linked undertakings, employs, on average over the previonus ucalendear ~~paragraph 1~~ year, fewer thand 20 persons, unless that provider is established in more than one Member State. The average number of persons shall include all those working on a full-time, part- time, temporary, non-guaranteed hours and self-employed basis

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. UnAll cross-border parcel deliver~~sal~~y service providers ~~providing parcel delivery services~~falling within the scope of Article 3 shall provide the national regulatory authority of the Member State in which they are established with the public list of tariffs applicable on 1 January of each calendar year for the delivery of postal items falling within the categories listed in the Annex. That information shall be provided by ~~31 Jan~~28 February of each calendar year at the latest.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. The national regulatory authorities shall without delay and by ~~28 February~~31 March of each calendar year at the latest submit the public lists of tariffs obtained in accordance with paragraph 1 to the Commission. The Commission shall publish them on a dedicated website by 30 April of each calendar year at the latest.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3

3. UnAll cross-border parcel deliver~~sal~~y service providers ~~providing parcel delivery services~~falling within the scope of Article 3 shall provide the national regulatory authority with the terminal rates applicable on 1 January of each calendar year to postal items originating from other Member States. That information shall be provided by ~~31 Jan~~28 February of each calendar year at the latest.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4

4. The national regulatory authorities shall submit the terminal rates obtained in accordance with paragraph 3 to the Commission and the national regulatory authorities of the originating Member States by ~~28 of February~~31 March of each calendar year at the latest.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The national regulatory authority shall initially assess the affordability of cross- border tariffs included in the public lists of tariffs obtained in accordance with Article 4(1) within 3 months of receipt of that information. InThe purpose of that assessment, i~~n particular the following elements shall be taken into account:~~s to assess whether the cost to individuals and small and medium sized enterprises is affordable and to what extent the uptake of cross-border parcel delivery services is affected by delivery prices.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) the domestic tariffs of the comparable parcel delivery services in the originating Member State and in the destination Member State;~~deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b

~~(b) the terminal rates obtained in accordance with Article 4(3);~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) any application of a uniform tariff to two or more Member States.~~deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. ~~Where the national regulatory authority concludes that cross-border tariffs referred to in paragraph 1 are not affordable, it~~In carrying out that assessment, in particular the likely impact on the following shall be taken into account: (a) individual users with little disposable income; (b) individual and shmall ~~request further necessary information and/or justification in relation to the level of those tariffs from the universal service provider~~and medium- sized enterprise users living or situated in remote or sparsely populated areas; (c) individual and small and medium- sized enterprise users that regularly use parcel delivery services.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3

3. ~~The universal service provider shall provide the national regulatory authority with the information and/or justification referred to in paragraph 2 within 15 working days of receipt of the request~~Following the assessment referred to in paragraph 1, the national regulatory authority may request from the parcel delivery service provider evidence such as a justification containing any relevant information in relation to the level of those tariffs such as the specific transportation or handling costs and bilateral volumes between different cross- border parcel delivery service providers.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4

4. The national regulatory authority shall submit its assessment, including any information and/or justification provided in accordance with paragraph 3, to the Commission, the national regulatory authorities of the other Member States and the national authorities within the Member State of the submitting national regulatory authority entrusted with the implementation of competition law. A non-confidential version of that assessment shall also be provided to the Commission. That information shall be provided by 31 March of each calendar year at the latparcel delivery service provider shall provide the national regulatory authority with the justification referred to in paragraph 3 within one month of receipt of the request.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5

5. The ~~Commission~~national regulatory authority shall psublish the non-confidential version of the assessment provided by the national regulatory authorities in accordance with paragraph 4 on the dedicated website by 30 April of each calendar year at the latesmit its further assessment, including any justification provided in accordance with paragraph 3 to the Commission. In addition, the national regulatory authority shall provide a non- confidential version of its assessment to the Commission. The information required by this paragraph shall be provided by 31 July of the relevant calendar year at the latest, and the Commission shall publish the non- confidential version of the assessment provided by the national regulatory authorities without delay and in any event within one month of receipt.

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Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Olga SEHNALOVÁ, Biljana BORZAN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6

1. Whenever universal service providers providing parcel delivery services conclude multilateral agreements on terminal rates they shall meet all reasonable requests for access to all network elements and associated facilities as well as relevant services and information systems, necessary for the provision of cross-border parcel delivery services. 2. The point at which access should be provided shall be the inward office of exchange in the destination Member State 3. Universal service providers referred to in paragraph 1 shall publish a reference offer. The reference offer shall contain all the relevant associated terms and conditions, including prices. 4. The reference offer shall include all components necessary for access as referred to in paragraph 1, including any conditions limiting access to and/or use of services where such conditions are allowed by Member States in conformity with Union law. 5. Before the reference offer is published, it shall be approved by the national regulatory authority. The national regulatory authority may, where necessary, impose changes to the reference offer to give effect to obligations set out in this Regulation. 6. Universal service providers referred to in paragraph 1 shall upon request, and based on a reference offer, make an individual offer available to a parcel delivery service provider requesting access within the meaning of that paragraph at the latest one month after the receipt of the request. Universal service providers receiving an access request and providers requesting access shall negotiate in good faith. 7. When no agreement is reached on the basis of the individual offer referred to in paragraph 6, the parcel delivery service provider requesting access may submit the individual offer made by the universal service provider to the national regulatory authority. If necessary, the national regulatory authority shall change the individual offer to give effect to the obligations laid down in this Article. 8. The access shall be operationally ensured within a reasonable period of time, not exceeding three months from the conclusion of the contract.Article 6 deleted Transparent and non-discriminatory cross-border access

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 a (new)

Article 6 a Provision of information to users by traders All traders concluding sales contracts with users that include the sending of cross-border parcels shall make available to users at the pre-contractual stage the following information, online or by other accessible means: (a) prices charged by them to users for cross-border parcel delivery including any relevant alternative or discounted rates or breakdown of charges; (b) cross-border delivery options offered, including track and trace, and mechanisms allowing the user to intervene throughout the delivery process, including regarding returns and to arrange redelivery or collection times or locations where applicable; (c) details of their own and relevant parcel service provider complaints processes and of the European Consumer Centre network for cross-border complaints.

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Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Olga SEHNALOVÁ, Biljana BORZAN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 b (new)

Article 6 b Harmonisation of quality of service and technical standards The harmonisation of quality of service and technical standards for cross-border parcel deliveries shall be prioritised further in accordance with the provisions of Directive 97/67/EC, through the European Committee for Standardisation and otherwise, taking into account in particular the interests of users, and efficiency and environmental considerations.

2017/03/30
Committee: IMCO

Lucy ANDERSON, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Nicola DANTI, Olga SEHNALOVÁ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1

Before XX/XX/2019, and thereafter every ~~four~~three years, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, the Council and the Economic and Social Committee an evaluation report on the application of this Regulation accompanied where appropriate by a legislative proposal for its review. The report shall be produced following consultation with all appropriate stakeholders, including the Social Dialogue Committee for the postal sector.

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) whether the efficiency and affordability of cross- border parcel delivery services has improved, including for users located in remote or sparsely populated areas;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) the extent to which transparent and non-discriminatory wholesale cross- border access as referred to in Article 6 has been granted by universal service providers providing parcel delivery services;deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

(b a) the impact on cross-border parcel delivery levels and prices, including data on delivery fees charged to both traders and users;

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)

(b b) progress on quality of service and technical standard development on cross- border parcel deliveries.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point d

~~(d) progress on other initiatives for completing the single market for parcel delivery services.~~deleted

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Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Postal Directive Committee established by Article 21 of Directive 97/67/EC. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011. 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.Article 9 deleted Committee procedure

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Committee: IMCO