European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations has been established by 15 Telecommunications administrations of Europe at 26th of June 1959. Currently CEPT includes 47 European states-members. The Telecommunication Administration of the Republic of Belarus is a member of CEPT as from 19th of September 2003.
The CEPT will focus on a set of key priorities. These are to:
• maintain and strengthen its technical expertise
• maintain co-ordination in wider international fora (ITU and UPU)
• take a more strategic approach with its policy work and decision-making
• ensure complementary and constructive engagement with EU activities
• give greater emphasis to economic considerations in spectrum management
• improve communications and arrangements for stakeholder participation in its work.
The Presidency of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) has today unveiled its new streamlined management structure designed to strengthen its work across Europe.
The essence of the CEPT reorganisation is that it will now have three presidents instead of one.
Under the new system the joint presidents will typically be in office for six years and represent CEPT’s three main areas of work. The new co-presidents are: Thomas Ewers, the Chairman of The Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), which deals with harmonisation; Ulrich Dammann – Chairman of The European Committee for Postal Regulation; and Anders Jönsson – Chairman of The Committee for ITU Policy.
The CEPT Assembly remains as the supreme body of the organisation. The CEPT joint Presidency is assisted by the European Communications Office (formerly European Radiocommunications Office) which acts as its secretariat.
The European Radiocommunications Office has also changed its name to the European Communications Office (ECO), this reflects a change in the wider structure of CEPT which happened eight years ago when it took on responsibility for numbering, naming and addressing.