National contacts
National fora have been established to deal with the special features of each country. Individual national migration plans have been drafted which outline the measures that need to be taken to implement SEPA.
National forum: SEPA Stakeholder Forum
National migration plan/report:
SEPA migration timeline (July 2013)
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Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Austria
STUZZA – Austrian Payments Coordination Platform
National forum: The Steering Committee on the Future of Means of Payment
National Bank of Belgium (NBB)
National migration report:
en . fr . nl (June 2013)
press release (20/01/2014): fr . nl
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Banking federation
National Bank of Belgium on SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Belgium
National forum: National Payments Committee
Contact: FMI-Policy-Oversight@centralbank.cy
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Cyprus
SEPA website
National forum: Estonian Retail Payments Forum – chaired by Eesti Pank (national counterpart to the ERPB) EN, ET
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SEPA webpage of Eesti Pank
Estonian Banking Association
Estonian IBAN
XML B2C & C2B communication messages
National forum: Finnish Payments Council
National migration plan/report: en, fi (April 2012)
Financial market report en
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The Federation of Finnish Financial Services
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Finland
National forum: National Cashless Payments Committee
Contact: www.comite-paiements.fr
National migration plan/report: en, fr (July 2012)
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Banque de France, SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in France
National forum: Forum Zahlungsverkehr
Contact: forum-zv@bundesbank.de
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Deutsche Bundesbank, SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Germany
SEPA implementation and migration plan: en (May 2013)
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Hellenic Bank Association
Bank of Greece: SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Greece
National forum: Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) – acting as national SEPA organisation for the banking and payments industry
Contact: Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI)
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Central Bank of Ireland: SEPA
www.BPFI.ie: SEPA
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) BIC derivation for Ireland
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Ireland
National forum: Italian Payments Committee
Contact: Banca d´Italia
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Associazione bancaria italiana
http://www.sepaitalia.eu
https://www.sia.eu/
https://www.nexi.it/
https://www.aiti.it/
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Italy
National migration plan/report: en, lv (October 2013)
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Latvia
National forum: Payments Council
Contact: Bank of Lithuania
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Lithuania
SEPA website
National forum: Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL) / commission moyens de paiement
Contact: ABBL
SEPA Implementation and Migration Plan: en
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ABBL
Central bank of Luxembourg
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Luxembourg
SEPA website
National forum: Malta Bankers' Association (MBA) - acting as national SEPA organisation for the banking and payments industry
Contact: Malta Bankers Association
National migration plan/report: en (April 2014)
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Central Bank of Malta, SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Malta
National forum: National Forum on SEPA migration
Contact: De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
National migration plan/report: en, nl (February 2012)
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De Nederlandsche Bank on SEPA: en, nl
Dutch Payment Association
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in the Netherlands
National forum: Payment Systems Forum
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Banco de Portugal
Newsletter SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Portugal
National forum: Slovak Committee for SEPA
National migration plan/report: en (November 2012), sk (November 2012)
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National Bank of Slovakia
Slovak Banking Association
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Slovakia
SEPA website
National forum: National payments council
Contact: Banka Slovenije and www.sepa.si
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SEPA Slovenija (available in Slovene only)
Banka Slovenije
Regulation implementing EU Regulation No 260/2012 si
The Bank Association of Slovenia
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Slovenia
National forum: National Payments Committee
Contact: SEPA Spain
National migration plan/report: en, es (December 2012)
indicators: es
More information
www.sepaesp.es
Asociación Española de Banca (AEB)
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorro (CECA)
Union Nacional de Cooperativas de Crédito (UNACC)
Sociedad Española de Sistemas de Pago (Iberpay)
Banco de España, SEPA
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Spain
SEPA website
National forum: National Payment Systems Council (NPSC) - acting as national SEPA organisation for the banking and payments industry, Bulgarian National Bank
Contact: BNB)
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Association of Banks in Bulgaria
Ministry of Finance
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Bulgaria
National migration plan:
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Payment Systems Act
Act on the Implementation of EU Regulations Governing Payment Systems
Croatian National Bank: The payment system, including bank codes and BIC
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Croatia
SEPA website
National forum: Czech Banking Association SEPA Webpage
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Czech National Bank: Regulations applicable to payments
IBAN by Czech National Bank
Directory of payment system codes, register of SDD creditor identifiers in the Czech Republic by Czech National Bank
Contact: Danish Bankers Association
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Denmark
National forum: Hungarian Banking Association
Contact: Hungarian Banking Association EN, HU
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Hungary
National forum: SEPA Polska / SEPA Poland (SEPA PL) – acting as national SEPA organisation for the banking and payments industry
Contact: SEPA Polska
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Search engine of bank numbers by Narodowy Bank Polski
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Poland
SEPA website
National forum: National Payments Council
Contact: Romanian Banking Association (ARB)
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Romanian Banking Association, SEPA
Banca Nationala a Romaniei, SEPA
Romanian Banking Association Digital Financial Services Forum
Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Romania
SEPA website
National forum: Swedish SEPA Steering Group of the Swedish Bankers’ Association – acting as national SEPA organisation for the banking and payments industry
Contact: Swedish Banking Association
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Fact sheets on SEPA migration in Sweden
EEA Joint Committee: Decision No 86/2013 of 3 May 2013 amending Annex XII to the EEA Agreement – incorporating Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 260/2012
Central Bank of IcelandEEA Joint Committee: Decision No 86/2013 of 3 May 2013 amending Annex XII to the EEA Agreement – incorporating Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 260/2012
Government of Liechtenstein: Report and proposal on enactment of EEA Joint Committee Decision No 86/2013 (in German)
National forum: Comité National Monégasque SEPA
Contact:Comité National Monégasque SEPA
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Monaco intègre l'espace européen des paiements – SEPA(September 2012)
Official Government Portal: Monaco joins the SEPA (July 2009)
"To increase the use of SEPA solutions, deadlines have been set for migration to SEPA schemes from national solutions. For EEA countries outside the euro area, the deadline has been set at 31 October 2016. This means that, as from that date, domestic and cross-border payments in EUR carried out by Norwegian banks must use SEPA schemes. Banks must ensure their systems can support the required SEPA message format."
Source: Annual Report on Payment Systems 2012 by Norges Bank
Ministry of Government administration, reform and church affairs: Digital agenda for Norway - SEPA
EEA Joint Committee: Decision No 86/2013 of 3 May 2013 amending Annex XII to the EEA Agreement – incorporating Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 260/2012
Reports on Payment Systems by Norges Bank
No additional information.
National forum: Swiss Payments Council (SPC)
Contact: http://www.sepa.ch/en/shared/contacts.html
Chair: SIX Interbank Clearing (National Adherence Support Organisation)
More information
www.sepa.ch
CPSS Red Book Switzerland 2011
UK Finance is the collective voice for the banking and finance industry, providing guidance on European and UK regulation and payments directives.
UK Finance is the UK’s National Adherence Support Organisation (NASO), helping UK-based PSPs with their applications to adhere to the EPC’s SEPA Payment Schemes. Any institution that meets the appropriate criteria outlined in the SEPA Scheme rulebooks can apply to become a SEPA Scheme participant.
Contact: NASO@ukfinance.org.uk
More information
- Overview report on national SEPA fora in the EU
- European Payments Council: Creditor identifier overview
- Statistics on payment instruments in the EU
- Blue Book, a comprehensive description of the main payment and securities settlement systems in all EU Member States (2007)
- Red Book, a comprehensive description of the payment systems and the other financial market infrastructures in various CPSS member states and the euro area (2011/2012)
- Regulation No 260/2012
- Download all available national fact sheets
Related links to Fact sheets on Regulation No 260/2012, European Commission:
Competent authorities responsible for ensuring compliance with Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 (Article 10) and Out-of-court Complaint Body and Redress Body (Article 12)