The 23rd Plenary Meeting of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services
ZAGREB, November 28, 2022 –The 23rd Plenary Meeting of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) was held in Barcelona on Friday, 25 November 2022. At this year’s second plenary meeting, the 2023 Work Programme was adopted, with a special emphasis on three main topics from the mid-term strategy (MTF) for the period 2023-2025: reviewing the postal sector and its regulatory framework in the light of environmental sustainability and digitalisation, promoting a competitive single EU market in the context of an increase off e-commerce and end-user empowerment and ensuring a universal and user-centric service.
The meeting adopted the documents of the ERGP working groups and unanimously elected the chairman of the ERGP in 2024, Mr Dan Sjölblom, President of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PSS). Ahead of the Plenary Meeting, a workshop on the future of the universal service was also held in the context of a sharp decline in the volume of items of correspondence sent in the postal sector and a strong increase in parcel traffic in the light of the growing e-commerce and new consumer habits caused by the pandemic.
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HAKOM - Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries – ensures preconditions for a fair market competition, stable growth and environment for innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market. HAKOM protects users’ interests and the possibility of choice among various communications and postal services at affordable prices, defines sustainable competitive conditions for operators and service providers under fair conditions for return on investment, and provides support to economic growth, public services and the quality of life in the Republic of Croatia by using modern technologies. HAKOM’ strategic goals are: to promote regulation of the electronic communications and postal services market, to support growth of investments and innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market, to provide efficient use of limited resources, to accelerate the growth of broadband products and services, to provide affordable offers of communications and postal services, to provide protection and informing of users, to build an efficient and comprehensive information system, to define and implement efficient processes, and to acquire multi-disciplinary expertise in market regulation.