Traducción de «Envío por correo » (Español → Inglés) :

In July 2002, the EU adopted a directive on privacy and electronic communications, under which subscribers are required to give prior consent – i.e. to "opt in" – to commercial e-mail (including SMS).

Upon a complaint by BdKEP, a German association of postal service providers, the Commission decided today that the German Postal Law violates European Union competition rules because it induces Deutsch Post AG, Germany’s incumbent postal services operator, to grant quantity-based discounts to bulk mailers who feed self-prepared mail directly into sorting centres but bars it from granting such discounts to commercial firms that handle mail preparation services for others.

(30) The sending of unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail may be undesirable for consumers and information society service providers and may disrupt the smooth functioning of interactive networks; the question of consent by recipient of certain forms of unsolicited commercial communications is not addressed by this Directive, but has already been addressed, in particular, by Directive 97/7/EC and by Directive 97/66/EC; in Member States which authorise unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail, the setting up of appropriate industry filtering initiatives should be encouraged and facilitated; in addition it is necessary that in any event unsolicited commercial communities are clearly identifiable a ...[+++]s such in order to improve transparency and to facilitate the functioning of such industry initiatives; unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail should not result in additional communication costs for the recipient.

2. The documents provided for in Chapter II may also be issued for postal consignments (including postal packages) which are sent from a post office of one Contracting Party to a post office of another Contracting Party.

- postal consignments (including postal packages) which are sent from a post office of one Contracting Party to a post office of another Contracting Party,

The aid schemes in question, the annual budgets of which total some FF 14 million (2 million ecus) : - promote the delivery of small quantities of French books to book- shops in other countries, - cover the additional cost of deliveries by air-mail to oversea departments and territories and to countries outside Western Europe, - promote the availability of French books in Eastern Europe - and subsidize French university books for students in certain African countries.