Tariffs and prices regime of postal services for 2002

By determination of 20 of December 2001, were approved:

(a) the price regime for non-reserved services that integrate the universal postal service in effect in 2002, the respective proposed signing of an Addendum to the Price Convention and also the universal postal service;

(b) the tariff schedule for the current year:

• price variations of 2.8 percent for the basket of reserved services;
• price variations of 2.9 percent for the basket of non-reserved services;
• the national base rate for ordinary mail (letter in normal format weighing up to 20 grams), for manual purchase of stamp, franking and franking machines, is EUR 0.28;
• the national base rate for priority mail (letter in normal format weighing up to 20 grams), for manual purchase of stamp and franking in post offices is EUR  0.43;

Note that ICP has asked the Consumer Institute and the consumer representative organisations to comment on the draft price regime for non-reserved services to be in effect in 2002, and has forwarded for notification a copy of the proposed rate schedule submitted by the CTT - Correios de Portugal.