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We make extensive information about the SEPA payment schemes and our other activities publicly available on our website. If you cannot find the answer to your question, do not hesitate to contact us by filling in the form below. We will be glad to help.

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Register of Participants

The Register of Participants lists all payment service providers (PSPs) and other eligible institutions who adhere to the EPC payment and payment related schemes.

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Participating in the schemes

If payment service providers (PSPs) want to offer SEPA euro credit transfers and direct debits to their customers, they have to formally adhere to the EPC payment schemes.

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SEPA for cash

The SEPA project and the EPC’s drive to improve payments harmonisation and innovation in Europe both encourage a shift from cash to electronic payments.

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Mobile proximity payments

If you have ever tried to pay with your smartphone in a shop, you are familiar with ‘mobile proximity payments’. The smartphone is the device used to access payment details such as card information when executing a face-to-face transaction.

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SEPA goes mobile

Mobile payments are soaring in Europe. The EPC aims to facilitate the use of all SEPA instruments with a mobile while ensuring the convenience, safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of these payments.

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EPC contribution to a SEPA for cards

When citizens travel in Europe or shop online on websites based in other European countries, they should be able to withdraw cash or pay by card as easily as they do in their home country.

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SEPA Direct Debit Additional Optional Services

The SEPA Direct Debit schemes (SDD) provide the sets of rules that enable a harmonised application by all participating payment service providers (PSPs) in Europe. PSPs can also provide additional services to meet specific customer needs.

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SEPA Direct Debit

The two EPC SEPA Direct Debit schemes offer consumers and businesses a convenient and secure means of paying bills. They are used to facilitate over 20 billion transactions every year in SEPA.

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SEPA Credit Transfer

A credit transfer is an electronic payment from one payment account to another. The SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) scheme makes the transfer of money in Europe easy and convenient.

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What we do

The EPC designs and manages euro payment and payment-related schemes that contribute to the creation of a single payments market in Europe and facilitate economic exchanges in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) for citizens and businesses alike.

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Our organisation

As a membership association, the EPC relies on the active contributions of its members with expertise in different aspects of payments.

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EPC Members

The European Payments Council is the European association dedicated to payments, managing payment and payment-related schemes.

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About us

We help make it possible for citizens and businesses to pay with the same ease and convenience across the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) as in their home country.

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