# Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service, Annex II: Quality standards for intra-Community cross-border mail

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The quality standards for intra-Community cross-border mail in each country are to be established in relation to the time limit for routing measured from end to end for postal items of the fastest standard category according to the formula formula D + n, where D represents the date of deposit and n the number of working days which elapse between that date and that delivery to the addressee.
Quality standards for intra-Community cross-border mail
Time limit
Objective
D + 3
85 % of items
D + 5
97 % of items
The standards must be achieved not only for the entirety of intra-Community traffic but also for each of the bilateral flows between two Member States.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1997/67/annex/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1997-67/annex-II
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