Programme and Presentations
9th Königswinter Seminar
Liberalized Postal Markets - Need for Regulation?
7 - 9 November 2005, Königswinter, Germany
Monday, 7 November 2005
| 18:45 | Reception | |
| 19:45 | Welcome speech Robert H. Cohen, United States | |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
| 09:00 | Introduction | |
| Universal service and competition - compatible or incompatible Chair: Karl-Heinz Neumann, WIK | ||
| 09:15 | The future of Universal Postal Services and their regulation | |
| 10:00 | Universal Service - The German Model | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Regulation of a liberalized postal market in Norway - Norway Post's positions | |
| 11:45 | Rural Post Offices: The Distribution of Post Office and Pharmacies in the U.S. | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Competition in postal markets - laissez-faire or promotion? Chair: Antonia Niederprüm, WIK | ||
| 14:00 | Intoducing competition in the smaller member states with underdeveloped postal markets | |
| 14:45 | Impact of market opening strategies on development of market structure | |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | The development of competition in Germany | |
| 16:45 | Speeding up liberalization in Slovakia | |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Wednesday, 9 November 2005
Role of postal regulator - Monitoring universal service or more? | ||
| 09:00 | Developing Access Regulation | |
| 09:45 | The Postal Regulator and Sound Regulatory Principles | |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | France: A New Regulatory Framework | |
| 11:45 | The need for sector specific regulation in a liberalised postal market - the Swedish experience | |
| 12:30 | Concluding remarks Antonia Niederprüm, WIK | |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
