The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) held its first plenary meeting for 2023, under the chairmanship of Petros Galides, Cypriot Deputy Commissioner of Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation (OCECPR). According to a press release, Galides was supported by the Vice-Chairs Dr. Spyros Pantelis, Vice-President of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), and Dan Sjöblom, Director-General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS). The Plenary discussed and approved the ERGP’s Draft Work Programme (WP) for 2024, which was prepared by considering the three strategic pillars of the ERGP Medium Term Strategy (MTS) 2023-2025. The Draft WP 2024 will be submitted for public consultation from 6 July until 6 October 2023. The Plenary also constructively discussed the Future of ERGP and agreed to discuss it further. The Plenary adopted the following documents: ERGP PL I (23) 7 – ERGP Report on future needs of the USO, PL I (23) 13 – Report on the application and implementation of the Regulation on cross-border parcel delivery services. In addition, on 22 June, prior to the Plenary, the ERGP held an internal Workshop on ‘Megatrends and the future postal regulatory framework’. The workshop identified the relevant megatrends and discussed how their evolution may drive the EU postal sector over the next two decades. The results feed into the forward-looking study that the European Commission is preparing after a relevant Council Decision of 26 July 2022.
Source: Cyprus News Agency