Case C‑345/24
Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM)
v
BRT SpA and Others
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato)
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 18 December 2025
( Reference for a preliminary ruling – Postal parcel delivery services provided to the public – Directive 97/67/EC – Articles 22 and
22a – Regulation (EU) 2018/644 – Article 4 – Decision of the national regulatory authority imposing on parcel delivery service providers obligations to provide information – Legal basis for the competence of that authority to impose specific obligations to provide information on operators not carrying out cross-border parcel delivery – Proportionality )
1.        Freedom to provide services – Postal services – Directive 97/67 – Postal parcel delivery services provided to the public – Regulation 2018/644 – Obligation on parcel delivery service providers to submit certain information to the national regulatory authority concerned – Scope – Any parcel delivery service provider – Included – Domestic or cross-border nature of the parcel delivery service – No effect except in the case of a specific exclusion
(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2018/644, recital 13 and Arts 1, 2 and 4; European Parliament and Council Directive 97/67, Art. 2)
(see paragraphs 37, 38, 40, 41, 46, 48-50, operative part 1)
2.        Freedom to provide services – Postal services – Directive 97/67 – Postal parcel delivery services provided to the public – Regulation 2018/644 – Decision of the national regulatory authority concerned regarding the obligation on parcel service delivery providers to provide certain general information – Information concerning the conditions applied to different types of customers, the contracts which govern the relations with undertakings contributing to the provision of those services and the economic conditions and the legal protections afforded to workers employed for that provision of services – Whether permissible – Conditions
(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 2018/644, Art. 4; European Parliament and Council Directive 97/67, as amended by Directive 2008/6, Arts 22 and 22a)
(see paragraphs 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 76, 77, 81, 84, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.