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Market Regulations and USO in the Revised Swiss Postal Act: Provisions and Authorities

In: Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy

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  • Christian Jaag

    (Swiss Economics)

  • Martin Maegli

    (Swiss Post)

Abstract

New postal legislation in Switzerland entered into force on October 2012. It encompasses a new Postal Act as well as a new Postal Organization Act. The reform of the Postal Act covers three main areas. The first is market regulation, which applies to all operators symmetrically. It includes the replacement of the former licensing system by compulsory registration and provisions on ex-post regulation of mutual access to PO boxes and address data. Second, it restates the definition of the Universal Service Obligation (USO), with different provisions for services offered to private and business customers and distinguishing between the accessibility of postal and financial services. Third, the new Postal Act defines a new institutional design, i.e. the division of tasks, organization and responsibility of public authorities in the postal sector. The Postal Organization Act governs Swiss Post’s range of activity, its corporatization and the spin-off of its financial services branch PostFinance.

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  • Christian Jaag & Martin Maegli, 2015. "Market Regulations and USO in the Revised Swiss Postal Act: Provisions and Authorities," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. Brennan (ed.), Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy, edition 127, pages 301-311, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-319-12874-0_23
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12874-0_23
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    Cited by:

    1. Haller Andreas & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2014. "USO cost allocation rules and welfare," Working Papers 0049, Swiss Economics.
    2. Urs Trinkner & Christian Jaag & Andreas Haller, 2019. "Funding Universal Services: Cross-subsidization and Net cost balancing," Working Papers 0064, Swiss Economics.
    3. Christian Jaag & Matthias Finger, 2017. "What future for the post office network?," Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, , vol. 18(3-4), pages 153-174, September.

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    JEL classification:

    • L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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