50In that regard, the Court has already held that ‘public postal services’, within the meaning of Article 132(1)(a) of Directive 2006/112 must be regarded as being operators, whether they are public or private, who undertake to supply postal services which meet the essential needs of the population and therefore, in practice, undertake to provide all or part of the universal postal service in a Member State, as defined in Article 3 of Directive 97/67 (see, to that effect, judgments of 23 April 2009, TNT Post UK, C‑357/07, EU:C:2009:248, paragraph 36, and of 21 April 2015, Commission v Sweden, C‑114/14, EU:C:2015:249, paragraph 28).
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