On 6 December 2018, ANACOM approved a regulation on the registration of postal service providers.
Six years after the entry into force of Lei Postal (Postal Lawhttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=346264), and in light of its regulatory and supervisory experience, ANACOM has decided to regulate the procedures governing individual licences, the obligation to provide prior notice of commencement of activity, common obligations of communication and the registration of postal service providers. Under the provisions of the law, this measure is deemed indispensable and necessary to:
- ensure the updating, simplification and modernisation of the procedures in question;
- promote transparency of information as regards market agents; and
- ensure equal access to the market and freedom to provide postal services, as established in Lei Postal (Postal Law).
In preparing this regulation, the benefits arising from its future application have been taken into account. These include the consolidation of transparency of information on agents in the market, and also ease of access to the activity, in accordance with the principle of freedom to supply postal services and with the objective of simplifying and modernising procedures in the relationship between ANACOM and undertakings, in particular by establishing the requirement to use electronic media and by promoting electronic services.
The Regulation which is now approved will come into force, in general terms, 60 days following its publication in Diário da República (Official Journal).
Consult:
- Regulation approved on the registration of postal service providers https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1465210
- Consultation on the draft regulation on the registration of postal service providers https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1458995
- Regulation No. 851/2018, published on 21 December https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1466817
