Programme and Presentations
12th Königswinter Seminar on Postal Economics
Regulation and Business in a Changing Postal Market
22 - 24 February 2010, Hirschburg, Königswinter, Germany
Monday, 22 February 2010
| 19:00 | Reception at Hirschburg | |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
| 09:00 | Introduction | |
| Session 1: Universal Service and USO Net Costs Chair: Karl-Heinz Neumann, General Manager and Director, WIK | ||
| 09:10 | Regulation of universal postal service in Greece | |
| 09:45 | USO net costs in the postal sector: Where do we stand? | |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | USO net costs in the USA | |
| 11:25 | Calculation and compensation of USO net costs in Norway | |
| 12:00 | Compensating USO net costs under EU state aid rules Christian Holzleitner, Case Handler, DG Competition, European Commission | |
| 12:35 | Lunch | |
| Session 2: Cross-border Mail Markets Chair: Alex Dieke, Head of Department, WIK | ||
| 14:00 | Cross border mail: the neglected child of EU Postal Policy Reform | |
| 14:35 | Trends and challenges in cross border mail markets: The experience of IPC | |
| 15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:40 | Challenges in cross border mail markets: The experience of IMX | |
| 16:15 | Ensuring that the cost of processing incoming cross border mail is fully recovered from import rates. A case study by the Irish regulator | |
| 18:30 | Reception at Hirschburg | |
| 19:30 | Dinner Speech by Annegret Groebel, Head of Division, Federal Network Agency, Germany | |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Session 3: Implementing the Third Postal Directive | ||
| 09:00 | Upstream competition and retail price regulation. Lessons from downstream access models | |
| 09:35 | Regulatory challenges in the UK postal market | |
| 10:10 | The new French postal law and regulatory challenges in France Guillaume Lacroix, Director, Postal Activities Directorate, ARCEP, France | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 | Regulatory challenges in the Swedish postal market | |
| 11:50 | Regulatory challenges in the German postal market | |
| 12:25 | Implementing the Third Postal Directive. Progress and challenges Kamil Kiljanski, Head of Unit, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission | |
| 13:00 | Concluding remarks Alex Dieke, Head of Department, WIK | |
| 13:10 | Lunch / Semiar ends |
