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A Europe that can provide solutions to its citizens’ everyday problems must be armed with only the best documents and examples. Thus, with regard to the legislation on the completion of the postal services market we see no reason to destroy systems that have worked efficiently, on a sound economic basis, along with the beneficial development of the market and safeguards for the maintenance of the universal service.
While I do not oppose the liberalisation of postal services in principle, I consider this the appropriate place to reiterate my view that there is no economic or rational argument for setting aside the ‘reserved area’ of possible ways of financing the general postal service. Financing via the reserved area is transparent and neutral, does not entail state aid, involves low transaction costs and few disputes and is validated by economic theory.
Proof of this can be found in Portugal, where all services are liberalised or ready for liberalisation, but that does not conflict with the financing of the universal public service out of resources from the reserved area. We cannot ignore the importance of the reserved area for territorial and social cohesion and for the prevention of desertification in more remote and inaccessible areas."@en1
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