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EU: EC Belgium to scrap restrictive postal licence terms

By  |  April 27, 2017

The European Commission ordered Belgium on Thursday to end restrictive conditions for postal licences and open up its postal market, dominated by state-owned BPost, or face court action.

The conditions include that postal operators should deliver mail twice a week and companies should extend to cover the whole of the country within five years at a uniform tariff.

These conditions hinder the entry of rival postal companies and are in breach of the 28-country European Union rules, the EU executive said in a statement.

Belgium has two months to comply with the order or could then be taken to court.

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