Postal services

Directive 97/67/EC

Short name:	Postal services
Base:	Directive 97/67/ECof the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service OJ L 015 of 21 January 1998
Modification:	Directive 2002/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the further opening to competition of Community postal services OJ L 15 of 7 May 2002 Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services
Directives repealed:	[-]
Guide for application:	Reports on the application of the postal directive
EC contact point:	DG Internal Market E-mail Postal services website
For information about the content and availability of European standards, please contact the European Standardisation Organisations.

Publications in the Official Journal

Commission Communication relating to 97/67/EC on postal services
OJ C 30 of 5 February 2005

Summary list of titles and references of harmonised standards related to postal services

The information contained in the summary list is a compilation of the references of standards which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Although the lists are updated regularly, they may not be complete and they do not have any legal validity; only publication in the Official Journal produces legal affect.

ESO	Reference and title of the harmonised standard (and reference document)	Reference of superseded standard	Date of cessation of presumption of conformity of superseded standard Note 1
CEN	EN 13619:2002 Postal services - Mail item processing - Optical characteristics for processing letters	None	-
CEN	EN 13724:2002 Postal services - Apertures of private letter boxes and letter plates - Requirements and test methods	None	-
CEN	EN 13850:2002 Postal services - Quality of service - Measurement of the transit time of end-to-end services for single piece priority mail and first class mail	None	-
CEN	EN 14012:2003 Postal services - Quality of service - Measurement of complaints and redress procedures	None	-
CEN	EN 14137:2003 Postal services - Quality of service - Measurement of loss of registered mail and other types of postal service using a track and trace system	None	-
CEN	EN 14142-1:2003 Postal services - Address databases - Part 1: Components of postal addresses	None	-
CEN	EN 14508:2003 Postal services - Quality of service - Measurement of the transit time of end-to-end services for single piece non-priority mail and second class mail	None	-
CEN	EN 14534:2003 Postal services - Quality of service - Measurement of the transit time of end-to-end services for bulk mail	None	-

Note 1: Generally the date of cessation of presumption of conformity will be the date of withdrawal ("dow"), set by the European Standardisation Organisation, but attention of users of these standards is drawn to the fact that in certain exceptional cases this can be otherwise.