Press Release: State aid: Commission approves public service compensation for Polish Post until 2011, subject to conditions

The European Commission endorsed in December 2009, under EU state aid rules, a Polish scheme intended to compensate the Polish Post for net losses incurred in discharging its public service obligations between 2006 and 2011. The Commission found the compensation mechanism to be compatible with Article 106(2) of the Treaty for the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), provided that certain conditions are fulfilled. In particular, Poland must improve the entrustment act and ensure that any significant changes to the cost allocation method for compensatory payments remain compatible with the cost accounting rules of Article 14 of the EU Postal Directive (97/67/EC).

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