The ECPC is a consortium of European domestic card schemes from Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Portugal, Spain and Germany. The objective of this initiative is to create a single and independent payment standard for Europe. The ECPC supports the maintenance and update of the CPACE specifications for cards, wearables and terminals deployed on the European market.
The CPACE ( Common Payment Application Contactless Extension) specifications were built on the EMVCo CPA standard for contact transactions, and was extended for contactless and remote payments.