The SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) project is a European project that rounds off the changeover to euro banknotes and coins. Its goal is to create a single, European set of euro-denominated payment instruments. With these new European payment instruments, consumers, companies, merchants and public administrations will be able to make payments under the same conditions throughout Europe, as easily as in their country.
What is the SEPA project ?
News
The French National SEPA Committee deems the private sector's migration figures to be unsatisfactory
The National SEPA Committee met on December 13, 2011, to follow the progress made both in the negotiations of the European Regulation establishing a single end-date for the migration to the SEPA credit transfer and direct debit and in the preparatory work accomplished at the national level. Press release
The national SEPA Committee urges firms to intensify their efforts in order to meet the European migration end-dates
The National SEPA Committee met on 10 June 2011 to examine the state of the migration to SEPA in France in relation to the suggested SEPA end-dates of the EU Regulation currently under discussion between the Council and European Parliament. Press release
Interviews
Mr. Xavier de Lavit, Treasurer, Leroy-Merlin France
Friday, 19 December 2008
Mr. Gilbert Labbé, Head of EDF Global Treasury and Internal Group Finance
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Jointly chaired by the Banque de France and the French Banking Federation,
the National SEPA Committee co-ordinates the development and roll-out of
the European payment instruments in France.
Press
SEPA in brief
Payments in the Euro area
Breakdown by country (in 2009)
Payments in France
Breakdown by payment instrument (in 2009)
Source: BCE, blue book