{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1997-67/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1997-67/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1997/67",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1997-67",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. In order to ensure the cross-border provision of the universal service, Member States shall encourage their universal service providers to arrange that in their agreements on terminal dues for intra-Community cross-border mail, the following principles are respected:\nterminal dues shall be fixed in relation to the costs of processing and delivering incoming cross-border mail,\nlevels of remuneration shall be related to the quality of service achieved,\nterminal dues shall be transparent and non-discriminatory.\n2. The implementation of these principles may include transitional arrangements designed to avoid undue disruption on postal markets or unfavourable implications for economic operators provided there is agreement between the operators of origin and receipt; such arrangements shall, however, be restricted to the minimum required to achieve these objectives.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1997/67/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:09.990280+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}