Artikel 12, femte led, i direktiv 97/67 om fælles regler for udvikling af Fællesskabets indre marked for posttjenester og forbedring af disse tjenesters kvalitet, som ændret ved direktiv 2002/39, der pålægger medlemsstaterne at træffe foranstaltninger, der sikrer, at taksterne for hver ydelse, der omfattes af befordringspligten, respekterer gennemsigtighedsprincippet og princippet om forbud mod forskelsbehandling og bestemmer, at disse takster i lighed med de dertil knyttede betingelser skal gælde ens både over for forskellige kunder og i forholdet mellem kunder og de befordringspligtige virksomheders ligestillede tjenesteelementer, skal fortolkes således, at det er til hinder for, at det nægtes virksomheder, der erhvervsmæssigt og i eget navn indsamler postforsendelser fra flere afsendere, de særlige takster, som en national befordringspligtig posttjenestevirksomhed på området for sin eksklusive licens indrømmer erhvervskunder ved indlevering af mindstemængder af forsorterede brevforsendelser til brevcentre.
The fifth indent of Article 12 of Directive 97/67 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service, as amended by Directive 2002/39, which imposes on Member States the obligation to take steps to ensure that the tariffs for each of the services forming part of the provision of the universal service comply with the principles of transparency and non-discrimination, and provides that those tariffs are, together with the associated conditions, to apply equally both as between different third parties and as between third parties and universal service providers supplying equivalent services, must be interpreted as precluding refusal to apply to businesses which consolidate, on a commercial basis and in their own name, postal items from various senders the special tariffs which the national universal postal service provider grants, within the scope of its exclusive licence, to business customers for the deposit of minimum quantities of presorted mail at its sorting offices.