BWBV0006293
Geldig vanaf 27-03-2025
Artikel 113
Algemeen Reglement van de Wereldpostunie
1. The Postal Operations Council shall have the following functions:
1.1. Coordinates practical measures for the development and improvement of international postal services.
1.2. Takes, subject to Council of Administration approval within the framework of the latter’s competence, any action considered necessary to safeguard and enhance the quality of and to modernize the international postal service.
1.3. Decides on the contacts to be established with member countries and their designated operators in order to carry out its functions.
1.4. Takes the necessary steps to study and publicize the experiments and progress made by certain member countries and their designated operators in the technical, operational, economic and vocational training fields of interest to other member countries and their designated operators.
1.5. Takes, in consultation with the Council of Administration, appropriate steps in the sphere of technical cooperation with all member countries of the Union and their designated operators and in particular with the new and developing countries and their designated operators.
1.6. Examines any other questions submitted to it by a member of the Postal Operations Council, by the Council of Administration or by any member country or designated operator.
1.7. Receives and discusses proposals, opinions and reports from the Consultative Committee and, when matters of interest to the Postal Operations Council are involved, examines and comments on proposals and reports from the Consultative Committee for submission to Congress.
1.8. (Deleted.)
1.9. Conducts the study of the most important operational, commercial, technical, economic and technical cooperation problems which are of interest to all member countries or their designated operators, including questions with major financial repercussions (charges, terminal dues, transit charges, airmail conveyance rates, parcel-post rates, and the posting abroad of letter-post items), and prepares information, opinions and recommendations for action on them.
1.10. Provides input to the Council of Administration for the development of the draft Union Strategy and draft quadrennial Union business plan to be submitted to Congress.
1.11. Studies teaching and vocational training problems of interest to member countries and their designated operators, as well as to the new and developing countries.
1.12. Studies the present position and needs of the new and developing countries and prepares appropriate recommendations on ways and means of improving their postal services.
1.13. Revises the Regulations of the Union; in this regard, the Postal Operations Council shall be subject to Council of Administration guidance on matters of fundamental policy and principle.
1.14. Formulates proposals which shall be submitted for the approval either of Congress or of member countries in accordance with article 142; the approval of the Council of Administration is required when these proposals concern questions within the latter’s competence.
1.15. Examines, at the request of a member country, any proposal which that member country forwards to the International Bureau under article 141, prepares observations on it and instructs the International Bureau to annex these observations to the proposal before submitting it for approval to the member countries.
1.16. Recommends, if necessary, and where appropriate after approval by the Council of Administration and consultation of all the member countries, the adoption of regulations or of a new procedure until such time as Congress takes a decision in the matter.
1.17. Prepares and issues, in the form of recommendations to member countries and their designated operators (or as binding provisions if the Acts of the Union so provide), standards for technological, operational and other processes within its competence where uniformity of practice is essential; it shall similarly issue, as required, amendments to standards it has already set.
1.18. Establishes the framework for the organization of user-funded subsidiary bodies and concurs in the organization of these bodies in accordance with the provisions of article 153.
1.19. Receives and discusses reports from the user-funded subsidiary bodies on an annual basis.
1.20. Adopts its Rules of Procedure and the amendments to those Rules.
1.1. Coordinates practical measures for the development and improvement of international postal services.
1.2. Takes, subject to Council of Administration approval within the framework of the latter’s competence, any action considered necessary to safeguard and enhance the quality of and to modernize the international postal service.
1.3. Decides on the contacts to be established with member countries and their designated operators in order to carry out its functions.
1.4. Takes the necessary steps to study and publicize the experiments and progress made by certain member countries and their designated operators in the technical, operational, economic and vocational training fields of interest to other member countries and their designated operators.
1.5. Takes, in consultation with the Council of Administration, appropriate steps in the sphere of technical cooperation with all member countries of the Union and their designated operators and in particular with the new and developing countries and their designated operators.
1.6. Examines any other questions submitted to it by a member of the Postal Operations Council, by the Council of Administration or by any member country or designated operator.
1.7. Receives and discusses proposals, opinions and reports from the Consultative Committee and, when matters of interest to the Postal Operations Council are involved, examines and comments on proposals and reports from the Consultative Committee for submission to Congress.
1.8. (Deleted.)
1.9. Conducts the study of the most important operational, commercial, technical, economic and technical cooperation problems which are of interest to all member countries or their designated operators, including questions with major financial repercussions (charges, terminal dues, transit charges, airmail conveyance rates, parcel-post rates, and the posting abroad of letter-post items), and prepares information, opinions and recommendations for action on them.
1.10. Provides input to the Council of Administration for the development of the draft Union Strategy and draft quadrennial Union business plan to be submitted to Congress.
1.11. Studies teaching and vocational training problems of interest to member countries and their designated operators, as well as to the new and developing countries.
1.12. Studies the present position and needs of the new and developing countries and prepares appropriate recommendations on ways and means of improving their postal services.
1.13. Revises the Regulations of the Union; in this regard, the Postal Operations Council shall be subject to Council of Administration guidance on matters of fundamental policy and principle.
1.14. Formulates proposals which shall be submitted for the approval either of Congress or of member countries in accordance with article 142; the approval of the Council of Administration is required when these proposals concern questions within the latter’s competence.
1.15. Examines, at the request of a member country, any proposal which that member country forwards to the International Bureau under article 141, prepares observations on it and instructs the International Bureau to annex these observations to the proposal before submitting it for approval to the member countries.
1.16. Recommends, if necessary, and where appropriate after approval by the Council of Administration and consultation of all the member countries, the adoption of regulations or of a new procedure until such time as Congress takes a decision in the matter.
1.17. Prepares and issues, in the form of recommendations to member countries and their designated operators (or as binding provisions if the Acts of the Union so provide), standards for technological, operational and other processes within its competence where uniformity of practice is essential; it shall similarly issue, as required, amendments to standards it has already set.
1.18. Establishes the framework for the organization of user-funded subsidiary bodies and concurs in the organization of these bodies in accordance with the provisions of article 153.
1.19. Receives and discusses reports from the user-funded subsidiary bodies on an annual basis.
1.20. Adopts its Rules of Procedure and the amendments to those Rules.
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