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The European Regulators Group for Postal Services

The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) is an advisory group to the European Commission. Its main objective is to help consolidate the internal postal services market and ensure consistent application of relevant legislation. To achieve these objectives, ERGP facilitates cooperation between the independent National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) and between them and the Commission.

News & Updates

ERGP is consulting on the mid term strategy (MTS) for 2026-28 and would invite all to comment on the MTS and answer the following 2 questions

  1. As the ERGP sets its strategic direction for 2026–28, which key challenges or emerging trends should be prioritised, and are there important issues that ERGP may have overlooked?
  2. In light of these challenges and trends, which regulatory areas do you think the ERGP should focus on to ensure effective and forward-looking postal sector regulation by NRAs?

Comments and answers should be sent to GROW-ERGPatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-ERGP[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) and ergp2024atpts [dot] se (ergp2024[at]pts[dot]se) by 3 October 2025.

Furthermore, ERGP is consulting on its draft work programme 2026 – comments should be send to GROW-ERGPatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-ERGP[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) and ergp2026atanacom [dot] pt (ergp2026[at]anacom[dot]pt) by 3 October 2025.

On 2 July 2025, the ERGP held its 28th Plenary meeting in Istanbul hosted by BTK.

Press release

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On 29 November 2024, ERGP held its 27th Plenary meeting hosted by PTS in Stockholm.

Press release (PDF, 155 kB)

ERGP expresses its solidarity with Nova Posta of Ukraine

ERGP is on LinkedIn

Membership

The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) is composed of NRAs from EU countries. The Commission, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority, NRAs from European Economic Area countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and EU candidate countries participate as observers to the group.

Participation takes place at the level of heads of the NRAs and the chair is elected from the membership. The Commission provides the secretariat to the group.

Note: for National Regulatory Authority in Estonia - Konkurentsiamet

Contact

ERGP can be contacted via grow-ergpatec [dot] europa [dot] eu

Expert groups

The ERGP work programme for 2023 was adopted during the ERGP plenary on 25 November 2022.

The work programme is organised based on the 3 strategic pillars of the medium term strategy 2023-2025

  • Strategic pillar I – revisiting the postal sector and its regulatory framework in the light of environmental sustainability and digitalisation
  • Strategic pillar II – promoting a competitive EU postal single market in the context of rising e-commerce deliveries
  • Strategic pillar III – empowering end-users and ensuring a user oriented universal service

According to the medium term strategy, in all activities stemming from strategic pillars I, II and III, ERGP will focus on

  • providing proactive and forward-looking support and advice to the European Commission
  • refocusing the objectives of the regulatory framework following the greenfield approach
  • continue reflecting specificities of the letter mail segment as part of the postal sector
  • empowering the end-users ensuring their ability to make an informed choice and benefit from changing business models while being protected in a volatile economic environment
  • enhanced engagement with relevant stakeholders and international organisations
  • efficiency

The implementation of the 2023 work programme is entrusted to ERGP work groups, composed of experts from national regulatory authorities.

Meetings, documents and consultations

Since it was established, the ERGP has played an important role in postal reform and oversight. Comprehensive information about the ERGP meetings and publications is available here.