Royal Mail - Licensing

Background on the Royal Mail licence.

Related documents:

28 March 2007 - direction 
Postal Services Act 2000, Sections 11 and 13. Licence granted to Royal Mail Group plc, Schedule 2, Part 3, Condition 7. Direction for the purpose of permitting the provision of postal voting services (pdf, 19KB).
28 March 2007 - direction 
Postal Services Act 2000, Sections 11 and 13. Licence granted to Royal Mail Group plc, Schedule 2, Part 3, Condition 4. Direction in relation to Royal Mail’s Business Collections (pdf, 19KB).
13 February 2007 - direction 
Postal Services Act 2000, Sections 11 and 13. Licence granted to Royal Mail Group plc, Schedule 2, Part 8, Condition 21. Direction in relation to Automated Standard Tariff Large Letters Service (pdf, 21KB).
13 December 2006 - direction 
Postal Services Act 2000, Sections 11 and 38. Licence granted to Royal Mail Group plc Schedule 2, Part 2, Condition 7. Direction for the purpose of permitting the trial of a service known as Courier Collect (pdf, 29KB).
31 October 2006 - Royal Mail application 
An application for a direction from Postcomm for standard tariff machineable large letters (pdf, 103KB).
25 May 2006 - Royal Mail licence
Postal Services Act 2000, Section 11. Amended licence granted to Royal Mail Group plc (formerly Consignia) on 23 March 2001 and amended on 25 May 2006 (pdf, 350KB).
8 August 2003 - statement by Postcomm
Role of the Royal Mail group compliance officer (pdf, 59KB).
1 April 2003 - Royal Mail licence
Postal Services Act 2000, Section 11. Amended licence granted to Royal Mail group plc (formerly Consignia) on 23 March 2001 and amended on 1 April 2003 (pdf, 199KB).
14 March 2002 - interim direction
Postal Services Act 2000, Section 11. Licence granted to Consignia plc Condition 1. Direction designating exceptional conditions and circumstances (pdf, 36KB).
12 April 2001 - news release
Postcomm publishes decision document on Consignia's licence.
11 April 2001 - decision document 
Licence for Consignia plc. Decision document (pdf, 190KB).
11 April 2001- news release 
Consignia's application for a price increase.
26 March 2001 - news release 
Postcomm issues first licence to Consignia.
23 March 2001 - licence 
Postal Services Act 2000, Section 11. Licence granted to Consignia plc on 23 March 2001 (pdf, 251KB).
23 March 2001 - licence: product descriptions 
Postal Services Act 2000, Section 11. Licence granted to Consignia plc. Condition 4 approval. 23 March 2001 (pdf, 74KB).
20 March 2001 - consultation responses 
Responses to the "Licence for Consignia plc" consultation document (pdf, 318KB).
27 February 2001 - consultation list 
List of those who registered written copies of the consultation document "Licence for Consignia plc" (pdf, 22KB).
29 January 2001 - consultation document 
Licence for Consignia plc. A consultation document and notice (pdf, 122KB).
28 January 2001 - news release 
Postcomm consults on first licence for Consignia.

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