European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations


The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations was established on 26 June 1959 by nineteen European states in Montreux, Switzerland, 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 in 1988.
WWW Official Site𝕏 cept_org

Organization

CEPT is organised into three main components:
  • Electronic Communications Committee – responsible for radiocommunications and telecommunications matters and formed by the merger of ECTRA and ERC in September 2001
  • *The permanent secretariat of the ECC is the European Communications Office
  • European Committee for Postal Regulation – responsible for postal matters
  • The committee for ITU Policy 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
The entity is based on the concept of a Postal, telegraph and telephone service entity.

Member countries

As of Jan 2026: 46 countries.
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City. The Russian Federation and Belarus memberships were suspended indefinitely on 17 March 2022.