PostEurop supports the ongoing consideration of the application of the GDPR as well as of the challenges arising in that regard.
PostEurop recognises the aims and benefits of the GDPR framework, to encourage the development of a coherent and reliable data protection framework, for the benefit of citizens as well as society more broadly.
However, it is critical that this framework is clear, foreseeable and operationally workable. The GDPR must provide “legal and practical certainty for economic operators and public authorities”.
Compliance with the GDPR within the broader, rapidly evolving EU regulatory framework, both from a technological and economic perspective, is at risk of becoming extremely challenging if universal postal service providers are to continue to provide sustainable and thriving postal services, as well as ensure the economic contribution that such postal services and service providers make.
Our submission focuses on those parts of the Report that are most relevant to the data protection aspects affecting our postal business and other related services to postal users.
In particular, PostEurop seeks that the application of the GDPR in practice takes into account the postal services sector’s specific features, which emanate from the social, cultural and economic objectives inherent in the provision of services to meet postal users’ needs. It also advocates for a high level of coherence in relation to the broader EU digital and data legislative framework to ensure that innovation and evolution of the postal service is not compromised.
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