Postal & Courier Services
Every parcel is a data record — and that record is your business.
Postal, courier, and parcel services are listed as important entities. Your business runs on shipment tracking, route planning, and interfaces to your clients — if any one of them fails, delivery stops.
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Annex 2 · Sector 1
Sector: Transport and traffic — postal and courier services
Providers of postal services under Section 3 No. 15 PostG, including providers of courier services.
Entity of essential importance
at least 250 employees — or annual turnover above €50 million and an annual balance sheet total above €43 million
Applies to entity types under Annex 1 · Section 28(1), (2) BSIG
Important entity
at least 50 employees — or annual turnover and balance sheet total above €10 million
Applies to entity types under Annexes 1 and 2 · Section 28(1), (2) BSIG
Important for you: As an Annex 2 entity type, once you cross the threshold you count as an important entity — the obligations under Section 30 BSIG are the same ones that apply to entities of essential importance.
Covered regardless of size: operators of critical facilities, qualified trust service providers, top-level domain registries, and DNS service providers (Section 28(1) Nos. 1, 2 BSIG); trust service providers always count as an important entity (Section 28(2) No. 1 BSIG). Employee count and financial figures are alternative thresholds (either one triggers coverage); for the financial figures, both values must be exceeded. Whether your specific company is covered is a case-by-case question — that's what lawyers are for.
What's typically in the register in this sector
These obligations decide it for you.
Section 30(2) No. 3 BSIG
Availability is your product
Maintaining operations through backup management, recovery, and crisis management — in a business where one day of backlog clogs the whole week.
Section 30(2) No. 9 BSIG
Many hands, many access points
Personnel security and access control matter most where turnover is high and subcontractors are many: whoever delivers today shouldn't still be in the system next month.
Section 30(2) No. 7 BSIG
Awareness that travels
Basic training and awareness need to reach drivers on the road just as much as the depot — short, mobile, everyday language.
Example (fictional): The parcel company and the former subcontractor
A regional parcel company works with twelve subcontractors. When one of them ends the partnership, vehicles and scanners are returned — but access to the route-planning portal stays active, because nobody owned the task of switching it off.
Four months later, shipment data turns up at a competitor. Reconstructing who accessed what and when only partly succeeds. The costliest part isn't the data leak itself — it's that the client now reviews the entire partnership as a result.
A freely invented example for illustration — no real customer, no legal advice
Here's how Compliverse takes this off your plate.
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Access accounts and service providers live in one register — with an owner and an offboarding checklist.
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Training runs on mobile in 15 minutes, with a per-person record included.
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The reporting assistant walks you through the deadlines, if something does happen.
NIS2 in Postal & Courier Services: frequently asked questions
Is my Postal & Courier Services company in scope for NIS2?
Your sector is covered by Germany's BSI Act: Annex 2 · Sector 1, sector Transport and traffic — postal and courier services. That does not put you in scope automatically — a size threshold has to be met as well (Section 28(1), (2) BSIG). And no official notice arrives: you assess the classification yourself and register if it applies (Section 33 BSIG). Your sector also has an exception — it is set out on this page under “Are you in scope?”. Judging your individual case is a lawyer's job.
From what size does NIS2 apply to us?
You count as an essential entity from at least 250 employees — or annual turnover above €50 million and an annual balance sheet total above €43 million; as an important entity from at least 50 employees — or annual turnover and balance sheet total above €10 million (Section 28(1), (2) BSIG). Headcount and financial figures are alternatives to each other — but where the financial figures are used, both have to be exceeded. Some entity types are in scope regardless of size, among them operators of critical facilities and qualified trust service providers.
Which authority is responsible for us in Germany?
Registration and supervision sit with the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) — Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (Section 33 BSIG). Security incidents, however, do not go there: they go to the joint reporting office of the BSI and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) — early warning within 24 hours, report within 72 hours, follow-up report a month later (Section 32 BSIG). This is the most common misreading of the act — the supervisory authority and the reporting office are not the same body.
What happens if we do not implement NIS2?
The obligations do not go away: registration stays due (Section 33 BSIG), so do the risk-management measures (Section 30(2) BSIG), and reporting deadlines start running with the first significant incident (Section 32 BSIG). On top of that, Section 38 BSIG puts management personally on the hook: they have to approve the measures, oversee their implementation, and undergo training themselves. “I didn't know” does not carry here.
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Legal status checked on 01/09/2026 · Every statement with a source · No legal advice