European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

CEPT logo
Formation	1959
Membership	48 countries
Co-presidency	The Chairman of ECC, The Chairman of CERP and the Chairman of Com-ITU
Website	www.cept.org

The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) was established on June 26, 1959, as a coordinating body for European state telecommunications and postal organizations. The acronym comes from the French version of its name Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications.

CEPT was responsible for the creation of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in 1988.

CEPT is organised into three main components:

• Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) - responsible for radiocommunications and telecommunications matters and formed by the merger of ECTRA and ERC (European Radiocommunications Committee) in September 2001
  • The permanent secretariat of the ECC is the European Communications Office (ECO)
• European Committee for Postal Regulation (CERP, after the French "Comité européen des régulateurs postaux") - responsible for postal matters
• The Committee for ITU Policy (Com-ITU) is responsible for organising the co-ordination of CEPT actions for the preparation for and during the course of the ITU activities meetings of the Council, Plenipotentiary Conferences, World Telecommunication Development Conferences, World Telecommunication Standardisation Assemblies

Member countries

As of October 2007: 48 countries.

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City,

See also

• International Telecommunication Union
• Universal Postal Union
• CEPT Recommendation T/CD 06-01 (standard for videotex)
• E-carrier (standard for multiplexed telephone circuits)
• WiMAX
• PMR446
• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT)
• African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
• Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL)

External links

• [1] CEPT website
• [2] ECC website
• [3] ECO website
• [4] CERP website
• [5] Com-ITU website