About European Payments Council
The European Payments Council (EPC) is the coordination and decision-making body of the European payments industry. The purpose of the EPC is to promote the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). The EPC defines common positions for the cooperative space of payment services, provides strategic guidance for standardisation, formulates rules, best practices and standards and supports and monitors implementation of decisions taken. The EPC consists of 76 members representing banks, banking communities and payment institutions. More than 300 professionals from 32 countries are directly engaged in the work programme of the EPC, representing all sizes and sectors of the banking industry within Europe.
The EPC develops the payment schemes and frameworks necessary to realise SEPA. SEPA is an EU integration initiative in the area of payments designed to achieve the completion of the EU internal market and monetary union. SEPA is the area where citizens, companies and other economic participants can make and receive payments in euro, within Europe, whether within or across national boundaries under the same basic conditions, rights and obligations, regardless of their location. SEPA is currently defined as consisting of the EU 27 member states plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Monaco.
For further information on the EPC please contact:
secretariat@europeanpaymentscouncil.eu
or visit www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu.
EPC AISBL
Av de Tervueren 12 B
1040 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 2 733 35 33
Fax: + 32 2 736 49 88
www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu
secretariat@europeanpaymentscouncil.eu
