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REPuBLIc OF EsT0NIA MINisTRY OF EcoNoMIc AFFArns AND C0MMuNIcATI0Ns Marat J. Cherikchiev Your Ref: 03.06.2022 No 09-10/1659 Kyrgyz Republic Our Ref: 3’.O7.?°2 No Dear Mr Marat J. Cherikchiev, In Estonia there are no special legal acts concerning ETOE (Extraterritorial Office of Exchange, Universal Postal Union convention art 13). Essentially, the ETOE is regarded as a postal service provider within the meaning of the Postal Act if it provides one or more postal services. Postal operator in Estonia is the cornpany that coliects postal items from the sender and gets into contract with them promising the sender to deliver the postal item. Any other company that this postal operator uses to deliver the postal item is considered a subcontractor. It heips to carry out postal service but is not considered a postal service provider by itseif. Only the postal service provider needs to acquire appropriate postal licenscs and registrations in Estonia, but subcontractors do not. Thercfore transit business provider is not considered a postal service provider in Estonia. ETOE can provide ali postal services (that is forwarding of ordinary, registered or exprcss mail, etc items) in compliance with requirements provided in Postai Act. We wouid iike to draw your attention to the fact, that Estonia has changed its ETOE poiicy in 2021. Namely, we welcomc any postal operator who wish to open ETOE in Estonia only on a non-discriminating reciprocity pirnciple hitp upu irlt/Ln Me11bLls-(. Lntie/PoIIcIcs Rcgulaiion 1 xiia-Tenitorial-Oi1ices- A country whose designated operator wishes to establish and operate an ETOE in Estonia shouid allow an Estonian designated operator to establish an ETOE and operate it under the same conditions, inciuding using postal (CN) documents in ETOE activity. Therc are no restrictions from our side to register ETOE in Estonia by UPU for the transit service where Estonian senders are not invoived and your Country allows Estonian designated operator to open ETOE in Kyrgyz Repubiic. You couid proceed with the next steps in rcgistering it in the UPU network. With Luukas Ilves Government Chief Information Officer Elena Reilent +372 639 7666 [email protected] Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / ESTONIA Phone: +372 625 6342 / Fax: +372 631 3660 / E-rnail: [email protected] / http://www.mkm.ee