Article 1
Article 25 of Law No 90-568 of 2 July 1990 and Articles 22, 23 and 33 of La Poste's service obligations, together with Articles 4 and 6 of Decree No 93-1272 of 1 December 1993 as amended and the Order of 2 November 1998 on the organisation of DiGITIP, are contrary to Article 86(1), read in conjunction with Article 82 of the EC Treaty, to the extent that they allow only limited scrutiny of the non-discriminatory nature of the scales of charges and technical conditions applied by La Poste to mail preparation firms, and to the extent that this partial scrutiny is furthemore exercised by a public authority that is insufficiently independent and neutral in relation to La Poste.