Scope

Section 1

This ordinance applies to such postal operations and universal postal services as are referred to in the Postal Services Act (1993:1684). Ordinance (1998:529).

Supervision, etc.

Section 2

The National Post and Telecom Agency is the licensing authority under the Postal Services Act. Ordinance (1996:1135).

Section 3

The National Post and Telecom Agency may issue regulations concerning if and to which extent letter items should indicate who has delivered them.

Section 4

The National Post and Telecom Agency may issue the implementation regulations necessary to apply the Postal Services Act as regards delivery of letters, non-deliverable letters and supervision. Ordinance (1998:529).

Charges

Section 5

The National Post and Telecom Agency may issue regulations concerning the duty of a [(person) se i postlagen] who conducts postal operations, apply for a licence to conduct such operations or apply for a preliminary notice under Section 4 b of the Postal Services Act to pay charges for the operations of the National Post and Telecom Agency under the Postal Services Act and under regulations issued under the Act. Ordinance (1998:529).

The needs of Sweden’s Total Defence for postal communications

Section 6

The National Post and Telecom Agency may issue such regulations about planning and other measures for the needs of Sweden’s Total Defence for postal communications, as referred to in Section 26, second paragraph of the Postal Services Act.

Before regulations referred to in the first paragraph are issued, the National Post and Telecom Agency shall consult the Armed Forces and the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning. Ordinance (1994:183).

Universal postal services

Section 7

The National Post and Telecom Agency shall for one or more licence holders link the licence to conduct postal operations with conditions concerning the obligation to provide universal postal services. Ordinance (1998:529).

Section 8

Conditions concerning the obligation to provide universal postal services should contain, inter alia, the following requirements.

1. The density of the points of contact and of the access points shall take account of the needs of users.
2. Every working day and not less then five days a week, save in circumstances or geographical conditions that the National Post and Telecom Agency considers constitute reason for exception, at least one clearance and one delivery of mail shall be made.
3. At least 85 per cent of those letters which have been posted for overnight delivery before the stated latest point of time for posting shall, irrespective of where in Sweden they are posted, have been distributed within Sweden on the following working day. At least 97 per cent of the letters shall have been distributed within three following working days. The latest point of time for posting must not be altered substantially without the approval of the National Post and Telecom Agency. Exceptions from the requirements of the first paragraph, item 2 shall be communicated to the Commission of the European Communities and to the national regulatory authorities within the European Union. The National Post and Telecom Agency shall check annually that the requirements of the first paragraph, item 3 are satisfied and annually publish results concerning this check. Ordinance (1998:529).

Section 9

A person who provides universal postal services may, per calendar year, not increase prices for domestic delivery of single items of mail referred to in Section 8, first paragraph, item 3 and which weigh at most 500 grams, by more than the alteration in the consumer price index between July in the immediately preceding year and July in the year before that. However, in this connection, a price may be rounded to the nearest fifty öre, even if this means that the increase is greater than the alteration in the consumer price index.

The scope for a price increase which is not used during a calendar year may be used during one of the three following years. The total scope for price increases shall, however, be reduced with any increase in excess of the alteration in the consumer price index that occurred as a consequence of rounding. Ordinance (1998:529).

Section 10

The National Post and Telecom Agency may issue regulations under Section 7 a, first paragraph of the Postal Services Act concerning requirements for persons providing universal postal services. Ordinance (1998:529).

Section 11

The licence holder appointed by the government under Section 7 a, second paragraph of the Postal Services Act (1993:1684) to provide and administer the postcode system, shall in the event of alterations of the system heed good placename custom. 

Transitional provisions

1998:529

This Ordinance enters into force on 1 July 1998. When applying Section 9, the consumer price index shall be deemed to have remained unchanged between July 1996 and July 1997.