NIS2 for Postal and courier services
Dense logistics IT with thin margins. As an important entity you face ex post supervision, which in practice means the first contact with the authority is often an incident.
Which entities are covered
Postal service providers within the meaning of Directive 97/67/EC, including providers of courier services.
Sub-sectors named in the annex
- Postal service providers
- Courier services
Scope traps specific to this sector
Trap 1
Courier services are explicitly included, not only universal service providers.
Trap 2
Last-mile subcontractors may be below the size cap individually while the platform coordinating them is not.
What else applies to you
Directive 97/67/EC on postal services.
NIS2 rarely arrives alone. Where another EU act covers the same ground and is at least equivalent in effect, article 4 disapplies the corresponding NIS2 provisions — but only those, and only where that test is met.