Programme and Presentations

16th Königswinter Postal Seminar

2 - 4 November 2016, Hirschburg, Königswinter, Germany

Wednesday, November 2

19:00		Reception and Welcome at Hirschburg
20:00		Dinner

Thursday, November 3

09:00		Welcome coffee & Registration
09:30		Introduction Alex Kalevi Dieke, Director and Head of Department, WIK
		Session 1: Postal Regulation Chair: Iris Henseler-Unger, General Manager and Director, WIK
09:35		Competition in the Postal Sector: The Dutch Model Drs. Joos Francke, Team Manager Telecommunications, Transport and Postal Services, Authority for Consumers & Markets, The Netherlands
10:15		Implementation of the Press Distribution Concession (SGEI) in Belgium – Recent Experience Sophie De Schrevel, Advisor – Postal Services Market, Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT), Belgium
10:55		Coffee Break
11:25		Challenges to Achieving Efficiency in the Provision of Postal Services: Some Australian Observations Rob Albon, Principal Economist, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia
12:05		Modernizing Universal Service in Italy Gennaro Scarfiglieri, Head of Regulation and Business Support, Poste Italiane, Italy
12:45		Lunch
		Session 2: Delivering for E-Commerce Chair: Sonja Thiele, Senior Economist, WIK
14:00		US Parcels Market: The Invasion of the Last Mile Mohammad Adra, Assistant Inspector General, USPS OIG, USA
14:40		The Role of Letter Products for E-Commerce Antonia Niederprüm, Senior Economist, WIK
15:20		Coffee Break
15:50		Effects of the 2016 UPU Congress on International Package Delivery Services James I Campbell Jr., Attorney and Independent Consultant, USA
16:30		An Online Platform to Create Transparency about International Parcel Offers Stéphane Tomczak, CEO and Founder, Deliver in Europe
19:00		Reception at Hirschburg
20:00		Dinner Dinner Speaker: Ulrich Stumpf, Director at WIK and Veteran of Postal Regulation

Friday, November 4

		Session 3: EU Parcel Regulation Chair: Alex Kalevi Dieke, Director and Head of Department, WIK
09:30		The Proposed Regulation on Cross-Border Parcels. Evidence, Objectives and Prospects Sarah Barraclough, Legal Officer, DG GROW, European Commission
10:10		ERGP perspective: How should NRAs regulate cross-border parcels? Annegret Groebel, Head of Department ‘International Relations/Postal Regulation’, Bundesnetzagentur, Germany
10:50		Coffee Break
11:20		Parcel Regulation: Needed or Nonsense? Jan Bart Henry, Head of EU Affairs, PostNL, The Netherlands
12:00		Chances and challenges in cross-border parcel distribution. Hermes’ perspective on the European X2C market Carsten Siebe, Head of European Network Centre, Hermes Europe
12:40		Concluding Remarks Alex Kalevi Dieke, Director and Head of Department, WIK
12:45		Lunch / Seminar ends

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