{"id":90390,"date":"2016-02-18T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comreg.ie.grigore"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:16:43","slug":"udaru-poist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/tionsclaiocht\/ceadunu\/udaru-poist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00dadar\u00fa Poist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span lang=\"en\">Who needs Authorisation?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The postal services market in Ireland is liberalised since 1 January 2011 and therefore fully open to competition.<br \/>\nThe 2011 Act requires that any person who is providing or intending to provide a postal service shall, before doing so, make a notification to ComReg. It is a criminal offence to fail to make a notification or to make a notification or a declaration which is false or misleading in any material respect and the offender is liable on summary conviction to a \u201cclass A\u201d fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en\"Get an Authorisation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"Any person providing or intending to provide a postal service needs to complete and submit a notification form (ComReg Document 12\/81n) to ComReg.\nAs required by the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 (\u201cthe 2011 Act\u201d), in completing the form, you will also need to decide whether your postal service is \u201cwithin the scope of universal postal service\u201d. To help you decide this, ComReg has set guidelines (ComReg Document 12\/81a).\n\nA completed ComReg Document 12\/81n form must be sent by email to postal.team@comreg.ie and also be submitted in signed hard-copy by registered post to ComReg addressed to:\n\nThe Postal Team\nCommission for Communications Regulation\nAbbey Court\nIrish Life Centre\nLower Abbey Street\nDublin 1, D01W2H4\n\nOn acknowledgement by ComReg of the notification, the postal service provider is deemed to be authorised to provide the postal service or services described in its notification, subject to the conditions of authorisation in section 39 of the 2011 Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en\">Complaints and Redress procedures<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">A condition of authorisation is the provision by the postal service provider of complaints and redress procedures to ComReg.<br \/>\nComReg has published \u201cComplaints and Redress Procedures: Guidelines for Postal Service Providers\u201d ComReg Document 14\/06 which provide guidelines to all postal service providers, to assist in drawing up and implementing a code of practice that sets out the procedures, standards and policies with respect to the postal service provider\u2019s handling of complaints from postal service users, in accordance with the 2011 Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en\">Postal Levy<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The 2011 Act provides that an authorisation to provide a postal service within the scope of the universal postal service is subject to the payment of a levy. S.I. 181 of 2013 provides that the amount of the levy imposed on each applicable undertaking, other than An Post, is subject to a minimum charge of \u20ac5,000 per annum per postal service provider providing postal services within the scope of the universal postal service.<br \/>\nWhere an undertaking is liable to pay the levy for only part of a levy period, the amount of the levy imposed in respect of the levy period shall be the appropriate proportion of this amount.<br \/>\nRegister of Authorised Postal Providers [Current Info &#8211; to discuss how to layout\/populate]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs Authorisation? The postal services market in Ireland is liberalised since 1 January 2011 and therefore fully open to competition. 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