23rd ERGP PLENARY MEETING (European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP). Barcelona, 24-25 November 2022)

The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) held its second Plenary meeting of 2022, under the chairmanship of Mr Petros Galides, Deputy Communications Commissioner of Cyprus (OCECPR), supported by the Vice-Chair Dr. Spyros Pantelis, Vice President of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).

The Plenary agreed on the ERGP Work Programme for 2023, which sets out the ERGP's tasks for the next year in line with the strategic pillars of the newly adopted ERGP Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) 2023-2025: revisiting the postal sector and its regulatory framework in the light of environmental sustainability and digitalization; promoting a competitive EU postal single market in the context of rising e-commerce deliveries and empowerment of end-users and ensuring a user oriented universal service.

<b>PRESENTATIONS</b>

01- European postal services: The point of view of European postal workers. José Oliveira (SNTCT - Portugal)

02- Alternate day delivery in Italy. Alberta Corona (AGCOM).

03- Regulatory changes outside Europe. Ian Streule (Analysys Mason)

04- The future of the USO: a Norwegian perspective (NKOM)

05- Workshop Future Universal Service: ERGP insights. Rita Filipe Silva (ANACOM)

06- Perspectives of the universal Service in Belgium. Dirk Appelmans (BIPT)

07- Universal Postal Service: some perspectives from Sweden. Emma Maraschin (PTS)