Article 1 U.K.

Directive 2004/17/EC shall not apply to contracts awarded by contracting entities and intended to enable the following services to be carried out in Sweden:

(a)

large sorted non-priority shipments in metropolitan areas;

(b)

domestic standard business to business parcel services;

(c)

domestic standard business to consumer parcel services;

(d)

domestic express and courier parcel services;

(e)

domestic pallet services (also called light goods services);

(f)

third and fourth party logistics;

(g)

philatelic services; and

(h)

international parcel services.