National Statistical Institute

„Short-term business statistics “ Department

Julia Georgieva

State expert

2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 194

The universal postal service is performed regularly (during all working days) within fixed working time, with definite quantity and at reasonable prices and is accessible for every user at the territory of the country regardless of his place of residence. The following universal postal services are observed: letters, periodicals and parcels.

Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008)  - Class 53.10 ?Postal activities under universal service obligation?.

The data characterize the activity of postal services providers that handle letters, parcels and periodicals.

Letters - includes outgoing national and international letter correspondence (letters, postal cards, illustrated cards, printed issues up to 5 kg, small parcels ? up to 2 kg and postal advertising up to 2 kg);

Periodicals - includes subscription to periodicals and daily papers, as well as free sale of newspapers and magazines;

Parcels - includes national and international parcels up to 20 kg, comprising goods with or without commercial value.

Data are collected quarterly from the Bulgarian postal services providers, which perform universal postal services and have an issued individual license for such activity or part of it.

The survey is exhaustive.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 1999

Not applicable.

Thousand numbers

quarterly

· Postal service law OG, issue 64 from 04.08.2000 (last amended, OG issue 61 from 25.07.2014);

· Order No 4 on postal services (OG, issue 97 from 1979, last amended, issue 64 from 2000);

· Order on defining the rules for forming and applying the prices of the services included in the universal postal services Decree No 158 of Council of Ministers from 07.07.2004, amended from Decree No 248 of Council of Ministers from 30.08.2011;

· Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services;

· Universal postal convention published in OG, issue 35 from 11.05.2010 (drawn up in Geneva on 12.08.2008 and ratified by law by the 41-National assembly on 11.03.2010, in force from 01.01.2010).

Not applicable.

Keeping the statistical secret by following the regulations for confidentiality of individual data according to Law on Statistics (Chapter VI "Protection of secrecy").

According to Art. 2 (5) from the Regulations for publishing statistical products and services of NSI (protecting individual data of one or more enterprises) the published information on the internet site of NSI is aggregated.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release calendar  - 60 days after the reference period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information.

Quarterly, annual

Not applicable.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book.

Data on Universal postal services are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Communications: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7209

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

· Postal service law OG, issue 64 from 04.08.2000 (last amended, OG issue 61 from 25.07.2014);

· Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services.

Not available.

Quality checks and data validation are performed during the whole process of data collection and aggregation. Checks for data completeness, arithmetic and logical controls of the primary data are made. By identifying errors, the necessary corrections are made with the cooperation of the respondents.

Not applicable.

Main users are state institutions and enterprises from the observed sector.

No information.

All providers, which perform universal postal services (NACE.BG-2008 - Class 53.10 "Postal activities under universal service obligation"), are included in the survey.

The survey is exhaustive and data reflect accurately the conditions in the sector.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data are quarterly and are published  - 60 days after the reference period.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Data comparability is ensured at European level.

Data are from 1999 without any breaks in the time series.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden are defined according to the National Statistical Programme for the reference year. Due to the little number of the variables included in the survey, the response burden is not big.

According to the rules for data publishing revision of data can be made for past periods. Data revisions are based on changes of the primary data of the respondents.

Data revisions are based on changes of the primary data of the respondents.

Data are collected from the Bulgarian postal services providers, which have an issued individual license for such activity (NACE.BG-2008 - Class 53.10 "Postal activities under universal service obligation").

Quarterly

The survey is exhaustive.

Every quarter arithmetic and logical checks of the received data are made.

The data are handled in Excel.

Not applicable.