Q&A between Poste Italiane and the Antitrust. The Authority had reproached the company for having, starting from last June 10, increased the costs for notification of judicial documents and traffic fines by 40%, a service that was liberalized two years ago and which represents, again according to the Antitrust , a market “whose value is around 360 million, of which a third consists of judicial documents, while in terms of collection and stock volumes, violations of the Highway Code represent 80-85%”. “The company specifies, firmly – however Poste replied through a press release -, that there was no fare increase for postal notification services.
"In relation to the report by the Antitrust - continues the company's note - on the process of liberalization of the services of notification by post of judicial documents and violations of the highway code, Poste Italiane underlines that it is the concessionary by law of the Universal Postal Service – in whose context the notification by post of judicial documents falls to all effects – and that, until the approval of the "annual competition law", the services covered by the report were "confidential", i.e. guaranteed exclusively by Poste Italiane (unlike the "non-confidential" services, also provided by over 3000 alternative postal operators )”.
Poste Italiane therefore believes that despite the abrogation of the exclusivity, which effectively allows notifications to now also be provided by other operators, these remain "without any doubt in the context of the Universal Service and therefore Poste Italiane is entitled and obliged to continue the activity without the need to obtain a "special" license, which is required instead for new alternative operators". In fact, the Antitrust had observed that from its point of view the liberalization of postal services of judicial documents and fines - provided for by the 2017 competition law - had stalled and that "Poste still remains the dominant operator, if not exclusive”, in fact.
"Italian post operates legitimately on the notification market by post of judicial documents and road fines since, as a universal service provider, it possesses all the requisites capable of satisfying the necessary requirements of public order and safety", the company reiterated in the note, rejecting any type of accuse.
