HAKOM at a meeting of an ERGP working group

ZAGREB, 16 March 2016 – The French national regulatory authority for electronic communications and postal services (ARCEP) organized in Paris a meeting of a working group of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP).
 
The discussions at the meeting covered several documents concerning the existing and future alignment of the regulatory framework on cross-border parcel traffic, and on parcel traffic on domestic markets of each EU Member State. They also discussed the results of the joint activities of BEREC and ERGP working group in 2015, knowledge transfer, regulatory experiences and positive practice between the electronic communications and postal services markets in the EU, and their possible application on e-trade services.
 
The meeting was attended by representatives of regulatory authorities of EU Member States and candidate countries who are known experts in the postal services sector. An expert from the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM), Andrej Sardelić, who is the head of the Postal Services Department, also actively participated in the meeting.

ABOUT HAKOM: HAKOM (www.hakom.hr) - 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 competencies in market regulation.