UNI Post & Logistics Lobby Pack to regulate deregulation in Europe
The third European Postal Directive was adopted in the European Parliament in February 2008 and defined the deadline to liberalise our postal market as 31st December 2010. (31 December 2012 for; Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia)
Now we are in the phase of transposition of the Directive into national legislation and it is up to your national government as to how this liberalisation process will be implemented in your country.
Therefore to help your union in its efforts to ensure the transposition doesn’t adversely affect jobs, the universal service or the quality of postal services, UNI has developed this lobby pack. The pack contains a number of different kinds of material that we hope will be useful for UNI-Europa Post & Logistics unions to use in your efforts to deal with the Implementation of the 3rd Directive in your country.
The Lobby Pack includes the following items
1. A copy of a booklet containing a concise summary of UNI’s policies in respect of postal regulation and liberalisation. This should be a useful tool for you to use with governments, regulators, consumer groups and other stakeholders who may also be working with you in the campaign to ensure fair implementation of the 3rd Directive.
2. A more detailed document outlining the rationale and reasoning behind UNI’s policies in respect of postal regulation and liberalisation which can be given to public policy makers, government ministries, regulators etc., as background to our arguments for “regulating deregulation”.
3. A list of national regulators to help you in contacting and meeting with them to promote your union’s position.
4. A sample letter that you can use and modify as you wish to send to your national regulator to promote yours and UNI’s policy in respect of the implementation of the 3rd Directive.
5. A list of National Ministers to help in to help you in contacting and meeting with them to promote your union’s position.
6. A sample letter that you can use and modify as you wish to send to your National Ministers to promote yours and UNI’s policy in respect of the implementation of the 3rd Directive.
7. A list of Members of the European Parliament.
8. A Declaration that we would ask all affiliates to get every MEP and MEP candidate for the forthcoming European Parliament elections (June 2009) to sign. The declaration shows that they acknowledge that postal services form an essential and invaluable part of society and that they declare that postal services should also provide important, decent and stable jobs that have to be protected and maintained even in times of liberalisation and financial crisis. We would hope to get as many MEPs and MEP candidates as possible signing this declaration and we will publicise the names of those that do so.
9. A copy of the Joint Statement made in the European Social Dialogue by UNI-Europa Post & Logistics and Post Europ (the postal employers) concerning the evolution of postal services and liberalisation which you can use with your lobbying efforts with governments, regulators and MEP’s to show the joint concerns of workers and employers to have the implementation of the 3rd Directive met proper social standards.
We would thus like you to use all these documents (the policy booklet, the policy document, the joint statement) on every occasion you can as well as send the relevant sample letters to your national regulatory authority (there is a list with all their contact details) and to your Minister in charge of postal issues (a list is also attached). We would also like you to get the Declaration signed as many MEPs and MEP candidates as possible (a list with MEP contacts is also included).