On 31.01.20141, CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. (CTT) submitted to ICP - Autoridade Nacional das Comunicações a proposal for indicators and respective quantification to be considered in the definition of objectives concerning i) density of postal establishments and other points of access to the postal network allocated to the concession and ii) minimum services provided, including rules on minimum operating periods of postal establishments, according to Base XV of the bases of the concession of the universal postal service (Bases of Concession), approved by Decree-Law No. 448/99, republished in annex to Decree-Law No. 160/2013, of 19 November.
By determination of 10.04.2014, ICP-ANACOM considered that objectives and rules concerning the density of the postal network and minimum services provided, presented by CTT, failed to meet user needs under the current legal framework, having further determined that:
- CTT should undertake the revision of such objectives and rules, under paragraph 5 of base XV of the Bases of Concession, within 30 working days, taking into account views taken by this Authority thereon and respective reasoning;
- The revised proposal submitted by CTT should attach detailed reasoning based on factors indicated in paragraph 3 of base XV of the Concession, as well as the indication, where appropriate, of values currently practised in its postal network corresponding to indicators and objectives proposed, explaining the reasons for differences between current values and proposed ones.
In this respect, by letter dated 29.05.20142, received at this Authority on the same date, CTT presented a revised proposal of indicators and respective quantification, for the 2014-2016 period.
By determination of 26.06.2014, ICP-ANACOM’s Management Board approved a Draft Decision on the objectives concerning the density of the postal network and minimum services provided (DD),notified by CTT (on 29.05.2014) under paragraph 5 of base XV of the Bases of Concession. Having been deemed that objectives and rules concerning the density of the postal network and minimum services provided presented by CTT in its revised proposal of 29.05.2014 still failed to meet user needs under the current legal framework, ICP-ANACOM decided to establish objectives and rules on density of the postal network and minimum services provided, which were submitted to the prior hearing of CTT (pursuant to paragraph 6 of base XV of the Concession and articles 100 and 101 of the Administrative Procedure Code) and consultation of users (under the referred paragraph 6 of base XV of the Concession), both procedures having run for a period of twenty working days.
Contributions received were analysed in the scope of the “Report of the prior hearing of CTT and consultation of users on the Draft Decision on the objectives concerning the density of the postal network and minimum services provided, presented by CTT under paragraph 5 of Base XV of the universal postal service concession”.
