The Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Postal Services Amendments) Regulations 2008

Regulation 3(b)

SCHEDULE

“CATEGORY 8 – POSTAL SERVICES
PART T
Royal Mail Group Limited. Any other relevant person.	22.	Activities relating to the provision of postal services. For the purposes of this paragraph:
		(a)	‘postal services’ means services consisting of the clearance, sorting, routing and delivery of postal items; and
		(b)	‘postal items’ means items addressed in the final form in which they are to be carried, irrespective of weight. In addition to items of correspondence, such items also include books, catalogues, newspapers, periodicals and postal packages containing merchandise with or without commercial value, irrespective of weight.
	23.	Activities relating to the provision of the following services, but only where the conditions specified in paragraph 24 are satisfied:
		(a)	mail service management services (services both preceding and subsequent to despatch, such as ‘mailroom management services’),
		(b)	added-value services linked to and provided entirely by electronic means (including the secure transmission of coded documents by electronic means, address management services and transmission of registered electronic mail),
		(c)	services concerning postal items not included in paragraph 22, such as direct mail bearing no address,
		(d)	financial services which are —
			(i)	specified in category 6 of Part A of Schedule 3 or
			(ii)	referred to in regulation 6(l)
			including in particular postal money orders and postal giro transfers.
		(e)	Philatelic services,
		(f)	logistics services (services combining physical delivery and/or warehousing with other non-postal functions).
	24.	In relation to any service described in paragraph 23, the conditions are -
		(a)	that the service is provided by a relevant person which also provides services within paragraph 22, and
		(b)	the conditions set out in Article 30(1) of the Utilities Directive are not satisfied in respect of the services within paragraph 22 which the relevant person is providing.”