CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. (CTT) submitted to Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) a price and discount proposal in the scope of the universal postal service, which CTT intends to take effect as from 01.04.20181.
The price proposal fits into criteria with which pricing of universal postal services must comply, as set out in ANACOM’s determination of 21.11.2014 [under paragraph 3 of article 14 of Law No. 17/2012, of 26 April, subsequently amended (Postal Law)], bearing in mind that paragraph 3 of article 12 of the referred criteria provides that rules remain in force until the approval by ANACOM of a new decision on pricing criteria for postal services that comprise the universal service2.
The price proposal concerns services that integrate the universal postal service, referred to in paragraph 1 of article 12 of the Postal Law and covered by article 14 of the same Law. The following services are covered by the proposal3:
a) At national level: standard mail, priority mail, registered mail, easy mail, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, standard parcels, legal summons and notifications (reserved services) and insured mail;
b) At international level: standard mail, priority mail, registered mail, easy mail, economic mail - special regime, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, parcels and insured mail.
The price proposal includes the following features:
a) For the bundle of services made up of items of correspondence, parcels, books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, CTT’s proposal corresponds to an overall average annual price increase by 4.5%;
b) For reserved services (legal summons and notifications service), the price proposal corresponds to an average annual price decrease by -0.5%.
1 Price and discount proposal submitted by letter of 15.02.2018, further to which ANACOM requested additional information, by communication of 26.02.2018, which CTT replied by letter of 27.02.2018.
2 For information purposes only, ANACOM’s draft decision on pricing criteria for the universal postal service that applies until the end of 2020, approved by determination of 11.01.2018, provides also that pricing criteria defined by ANACOM on 21.11.2014 applies in 2018.
3 As far as services covered by the universal service are concerned, CTT’s proposal does not include only tariffs applicable in the scope of the special price regime, which is covered by article 14-A of the Postal Law.
