Postal national regulatory authorities (NRAs) hold differing views on whether the postal regulatory framework should include specific powers for NRAs to intervene on environmental matters. While a majority of NRAs believed that it would be valuable to add a new power for postal NRAs to gather data on environmental sustainability, NRAs are divided on whether they should have powers to intervene specifically on environmental matters, with the majority being against a new power to set environmental targets.

These were among the main conclusions of a draft report published on 11 December 2024 by the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP). The report, Exploring the possibilities to support environmental sustainability within the postal regulatory framework, relied significantly on a survey of NRAs, as well as discussions with other postal stakeholders.

Regulators divided on new environmental powers

Some 70% of responding NRAs agreed that it would be useful to introduce a new power for postal NRAs to request data to improve transparency on environmental sustainability.

Regulators recognised the need to minimise the burden of such information-gathering on postal providers but disagreed on whether existing data gathering, such as is required under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive  would be sufficient to meet the specific needs of the postal sector.

The same proportion of NRAs were also in favour of being able to use the gathered data in various ways, including to establish guidelines or to inform end users.

However, NRAs were divided on ...

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