The quality standards for intra-Community cross-border mail in each country are to be established in relation to the time limit for routing measured from end-to-end ^* for postal items of the fastest standard category according to the formula D + n, where D represents the date of deposit ^** and n the number of working days which elapse between that date and that delivery to the addressee.

Quality standards for Intra-Community cross-border mail.

The standards must be achieved not only for the entirety of intra-Community traffic but also for each of the bilateral flows between two Member States.