Small European Postal Administration Co-operation

The Small European Postal Administration Co-operation (Initials: SEPAC, or Acronym: Sepac) is an association small postal administrations European. Since 2007, they publish a joint emission of postage stamps.

Conditions of membership

The conditions of membership are the localization of the country in Europe, to be an independent administration and to have a small market of which more half of the customers philatelists live apart from the country.

Twelve members are officially declared in 2006: stations of Åland, the Faroe Islands (Postverk Føroya), of Gibraltar, the Greenland, Guernesey, Iceland, the island of Man, Jersey, the Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and San Marino. With the beginning of the year 2007, the stations of the Luxembourg join them.

History

In 1994, the agent Paolo de Rosa, in charge of the sale of their stamps in several countries of Europe, calls a conference so that these small administrations share their experiments. They decide to become autonomous of any agent and to create Sepac when Afinsa repurchases the agency of Rosa.

During conferences in 1999,2005 and 2006, several projects of promotion are evoked until the acceleration of the calendar in 2006 with the public presentation of the Co-operation of the small European postal administrations, a Logotype and a joint emission of postage stamps on a common topic treated in all independence by each member.

Joint emission

In October 2007, the members of Sepac, except for San Marino, inaugurate a joint emission bi-annual.

See too

Sources of the article

Jean-Louis Emmenegger, “common Series of the small countries of Europe”, article published in the Echo of the timbrology n°1812, November 2007, pages 82-83. Information on the history of Sepac in this article, agrees with the presentation of the Co-operation on the official site of this one.

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