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ETSI counts more than 900 member organizations worldwide, drawn from over 60 countries and five continents. Members comprise a diversified pool of large and small private companies, research entities, academia, government and public organizations. Browse the map to find our members.

ETSI provides an open and inclusive environment to support the development and testing of globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications and services across all sectors of industry and society.

The membership includes universities, research bodies, associations and public authorities, as well as industrial companies of all sizes; a quarter of ETSI's members are small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

You may also download our membership leaflet.

What an ETSI member can do

ETSI's members actively participate in the work of the Institute: they determine ETSI's work programme, allocate resources and approve the output. As a result, ETSI's activities are closely aligned with market needs and there is wide global acceptance of its standards.

You can also look at the ETSI information policy.

To enable our members to show their engagement and pride in ETSI, we have created a dedicated ‘ETSI member’ logo for use exclusively by our members. This ‘ETSI member’ logo is derived from the official ETSI logo and allows ETSI members to easily and clearly declare that their organization is an integral part of ETSI: an ETSI member.

Open approach to standards making

Openness is part of ETSI culture and is visible across the full range of our activities.

Any company or organization, from any part of the world, with a legitimate interest in our work, can become a member of ETSI and participate in the work of all our technical groups.

We believe one of the best ways to encourage market growth and innovation is to allow open access to standards. So, once approved, our standards and reports are made publicly available, free of charge, from our website.

By making our standards accessible to all, we support research and development, and we enable markets to grow and industry to compete.

Starting New Activities

Our complete standards-making process – from conception right through to approved standard – is well-defined and based on consensus and transparency.

Suggestions for new standardization activities can come from various sources. For example:

Our members themselves decide what work we will do. The entire membership is given the opportunity to endorse a proposal, or to object to it if they so wish.

The introduction of standardization as early as possible in the development of a new technology provides a solid foundation for its future exploitation. It is enormously beneficial for R&D projects to begin early standardization or even pre-standardization activities in a recognized, global standards environment. We therefore participate in collaborative research projects and monitor R&D to identify relevant areas for possible standardization.

If you want more information on the ETSI Education about Standardization activities please contact education@etsi.org.

Representation of societal stakeholders and SMEs

All our work at ETSI is guided by openness and inclusiveness, as seen by our:

Our standards are not merely technical documents. A choice of technology can have a wide-ranging impact:

It is important that our work takes account of market and societal needs at the same time, and that societal stakeholders are represented alongside the technical experts from our members.

Four organizations are recognized by the European Commission to represent the interests of societal stakeholders and SMEs in European Standardization. These are:

Their role is outlined in the European Union’s Regulation on European Standardization, 1025/2012.

ETSI has developed the 3SI Programme to ensure their opinions are better heard.

In addition, each of these organizations is an ETSI member and participates directly, with the same rights as any other member.

The contribution societal stakeholders bring

ANEC, ECOS and ETUC bring a wealth of technical expertise to the standards development process. Through their participation, the standards development process benefits from perspectives that are otherwise often missing.

Not only do ANEC, ECOS and ETUC enhance the quality of standards, they also contribute to building confidence in the standardization system. This has long been recognized by policy makers and cemented with the adoption of Regulation (EU) 1025/2012 on European Standardization.

ANEC

ANEC is the European consumer voice in standardisation, defending consumer interests in the processes of technical standardisation and conformity assessment, as well as related legislation and public policies. ANEC was established in 1995 as an international non-profit association under Belgian law and is open to the representation of national consumer organisations in 34 countries. ANEC is funded by the European Union and EFTA, with national consumer organisations contributing in kind. Its Secretariat is based in Brussels.

www.anec.eu

ECOS

Established in 2001, ECOS is the only organization worldwide that defends the environmental interests in the standards development process at European and international level. Its mission is to influence the development of ambitious strategies to reduce and control sources of environmental pollution, and to promote resource and energy efficiency, environmental health and sustainable development. ECOS is involved in over 60 technical committees across Europe and beyond and participates, mainly through experts, in the standards development work.

www.ecostandard.org

ETUC

ETUC, the European Trade Union Confederation, is the voice of European workers in standardization. With 45 million members from 90 trade union organizations in 38 European countries, plus 10 European Trade Union Federations, ETUC promotes high quality working conditions for workers in the standardization process.

ETUC launched the ETUC STAND project to strengthen the worker's voice in standardisation to ensure standards promote high-quality working conditions. They aim to ensure that the EU is not just a single market for goods and services, but also a Social Europe, where improving the wellbeing of workers and their families is an equally important priority. We defend fundamental social values such as solidarity, equality, democracy, social justice and cohesion.

ETUC works on a range of areas of relevance for workers. These include industrial advancement and services standards (e.g. maintenance & facility management, horizontal services, healthcare). Their work on standards is co-financed by the European Commission and EFTA Member States.

www.etuc.org/issue/standardisation

SBS

Small Business Standards (SBS) is a European non-profit association (aisbl) co-financed by the European Commission and EFTA Member States. Its goal is to represent and defend small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the standardization process at European and international levels. Moreover, it aims at raising the awareness of SMEs about the benefits of standards and at encouraging them to get involved in the standardization process.

SBS was established to meet the European Union’s aspiration to make the standardization system as inclusive, transparent and open as possible in line with Regulation 1025/2012 on the European Standardization System.

http://www.sbs-sme.eu

Users

We know that the ultimate success of our standards depends on meeting the needs of users – both the users of our standards, and the end-users of the products and services based on them.

We recognize a range of different types of user:

We are keen to involve users in our work and we have a category of membership specifically for user organizations. They have the same rights to participate in our standardization activities and the same level of access as any other company or organization within the ICT related industry.

We also seek to safeguard the interests of users at the highest levels in ETSI. So, when appointing one of the Vice-Chairs of our General Assembly, we give preference to a candidate representing user members (unless the Chair is drawn from this category). We also reserve one seat on the ETSI Board specifically for a user representative.

The User Group

We have established a ‘User Group’ to represent the interests of users of information and communications technology products and services. The User Group ensures other ETSI committees are aware of users’ views and needs. In this way our standards, and their relevancy, are improved. The User Group is also available for consultation by our committee chairs as needed.

To keep up to date with the latest issues, from time to time, the User Group conducts surveys within the user population at large or organizes workshops on current issues to gain feedback from users. The User Group co-operates with many user organizations in Europe.

Joining ETSI as a user

Not-for-profit user associations benefit from reduced membership dues.

Our Director for Membership Development will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Class of Contribution

The Class of Contribution for ETSI Membership is calculated depending on the type of membership:

We have the following 2 types of membership, depending on geographical location:

Full members' and Associate members' contributions are determined by class. The class is derived from the member company's annual ECRT band (ICT and Electronics Communications Related Turnover). Each class corresponds to an annual membership contribution and a number of voting weights.

Any Full or Associate member part of a Corporate Group can apply as an Additional Member under the Corporate Group contributing an Administrative Fee with no additional voting weight in ETSI (but with 1 vote in 3GPP and oneM2M if member of those Partnership Projects).

Any Full or Associate member in the category "Other Governmental Bodies" (OGB) can apply as an Additional Member under the Public Group of the country (if designated by the Administration of the country as Additional Member) contributing an Administrative Fee with no additional voting weight in ETSI (but with 1 vote in 3GPP and oneM2M if member of those Partnership Projects).

Note: A Full or Associate member in the category OGB not being part of a Public Group of the country can apply as an OGB Individual Member in class 1.

Please note that when you apply:

* For full details of how the class is determined, see Rules of Procedure, Annex 2 in the ETSI Directives on the Member Portal.
** Excluding VAT.

Download the table with membership contributions including the percentage depending on date of application.

* To qualify as an SME, you have to be an autonomous enterprise i.e. outsiders do not have a stake of 25 % or more of the capital or voting rights in your enterprise and/or you have a holding of less than 25 % of the capital or voting rights (whichever is the higher) in one or more other enterprises.

SME self-assessment tool that you can use to determine whether your organisation qualifies as a small and medium-sized enterprise.

Any ETSI member can participate in oneM2M for no additional fee.

An ETSI member with a Class of Contribution of 1 or 2 that applies for 3GPP^TM membership via ETSI pays a contribution of €3 550.
Where Public and Corporate Groups hold multiple 3GPP memberships, they shall make an overall contribution that exceeds 20k€ multiplied by the number of 3GPP members to be exempted from paying the 3GPP minimum contribution for each of their 3GPP individual Members.

In addition to the ETSI membership contribution, all ETSI members that are members of 3GPP will be requested to indicate their expected face-to-face (F2F) meeting attendance during the year in order to contribute to the funding of 3GPP F2F meetings.

Each delegate participating in a 3GPP TSG or Working Group F2F meeting counts as 1 attendance.
E.g. if a delegate participates in two Working Group F2F meetings (e.g., SA1, SA2) in May and attends one TSG F2F meeting in June, it counts as 3 attendances.

Download the table with 3GPP F2F Meetings Attendance fees.

The Class of Contribution for the Member category Administration is determined by the latest available figure of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Please indicate your country's annual GDP in billions of € (from the World Bank or figures from the last full calendar year).

Note that the vote of a national delegation may be cast only if an ETSI Full member in the category Administration contributes to the ETSI budget according to the GDP.

ETSI also has Observer membership with limited access rights for organizations in any country. Observer members have the right to attend the meetings of the General Assemby only with no right to vote.

For Observer members there is a flat fee of €4 200 per year.

Join ETSI to become part of one of the leading organizations for the development of world-class ICT standards that will design tomorrow's world.

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If you have the necessary information and you are ready, please APPLY FOR ETSI MEMBERSHIP by following the instructions provided.

The ETSI membership administration & care team can be contacted by e-mail or phone:

Obtain information

If you need to obtain more information about becoming an ETSI member before you join ETSI, please start by filling in the form below or contact our Director for Membership Development.

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Rights of applicant members

Applicant members awaiting approval of their membership may participate actively in ETSI's work. They may participate in the Technical Organization and Industry Specification Groups before the application for membership is formally approved. Voting rights are acquired following Approval. In order to get involved rapidly, an onboarding meeting will be set-up with your mentor. See more information here below:

Meeting participation

Mailing lists access

Support and decision making

Official role

Duration of membership

Membership of ETSI is valid for a calendar year and will be tacitly renewed each year. You have to notify ETSI before the 30 September if you wish to resign from membership at the end of the current year.

By signing the application forms, your organization agrees to comply with the ETSI Directives and decisions taken by the General Assembly.

There is additional information in our FAQs.

ISG PARTICIPATION

For an organization that wants to participate in an ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) the following applies:

For more information contact the ISG support team.

SDG/OSG PARTICIPATION

For an organization that wants to participate in a Software Development Group (SDG) or Open Source Group (OSG) the following applies:

For more information contact the SDG support team.

How ETSI members join 3GPP

ETSI members who wish to join 3GPP should contact 3GPPMembership@etsi.org. After checking of their status they will be added as 3GPP Member in our database and receive information on how to become active in 3GPP.

How ETSI members join oneM2M

ETSI members who wish to join oneM2M should contact onem2m_secretariat@list.onem2m.org. After checking of their status they will be added to the oneM2M member list and receive information on how to become active in oneM2M.

Questions about the application process and payment

BECOMING A MEMBER

For enquiries related to becoming an ETSI member, please contact our Director for Membership Development.

EXISTING MEMBERSHIP

For enquiries related to an existing ETSI membership, please contact the ETSI membership team by e-mail, phone or fax:

membership@etsi.org
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 42 69
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 65 47 16 (mark for the attention of Membership)

You can apply online and then follow the instructions

The application must be submitted online. If you don’t have an ETSI Online account, you will need to request one via the same link to proceed with your application.

The person authorized to sign such legal documents on behalf of an organization. The Membership Agreement with annexed application form is sent for signature to the person you have indicated as "Legal contact".

The person authorized to sign such legal documents on behalf of an organization.The signature on the application engages a member to comply with the ETSI Directives and the decisions of the General Assembly and to pay the yearly contribution. Therefore, the person who signs should be authorized within the organization to ensure that this engagement is respected. e.g. the head of division or head of section depending on how authority is delegated within your organization.

Membership of ETSI is approved by obtaining consensus among the ETSI Full and Associate members via an online poll organized four times per year, subject to the payment of the member contribution or observer fee prior to the poll submission and calculated on a pro-rata basis - depending on when the application is registered by the ETSI Secretariat (see our contributions page). 

The different membership categories of ETSI are described in the ETSI Rules of Procedure, Annex 1, contained in the ETSI Directives.

Administrations: For the purposes of the present Rules of Procedure “Administration” refers to the specific department, agency or other organization empowered by a public authority or a government to act on its behalf, and financially contributing to the ETSI budget according to the latest available figure of the GDP of their country as specified in Annex 2 of the RoP. This financially contributing organization is usually the department leading on electronic communications and digital technical standards for the government.

Other Governmental Bodies: Central government departments, local government departments, public institutions, public authorities (agencies, corporations etc.) that function separately from the department that pays the Administrations membership.

National Standards Organizations: Organizations whose function is to carry out at national level the activities related to Standstill, Public Enquiry, establishment of the national position for the vote on draft European Standards as well as the transposition and withdrawal of national standards. These organizations are recognized by their governments as being authorized to make those standards available to the public at the national level.

Consultancy Companies/Partnerships: Legally established entities that provide professional expertise in relation to electronics communications and related areas.

An association or organization of such Consultancy Companies/Partnerships also falls within this category.

Manufacturers: Companies developing and/or producing and/or installing and/or maintaining products to be used in, or directly or indirectly connected to, an electronics communications network.

An association or organization of such Manufacturers also falls within this category.

Network Operators: Operators of an electronics communications network or part thereof.

An association or organization of such Network Operators also falls within this category.

Research Bodies: Establishment performing research related to electronics communications and related areas. A Public Research Body is a not-for-profit research organization whose majority ownership is within the public sector.

Service Providers: Companies providing service(s) on a commercial basis to third parties.

An association or organization of such Service Providers also falls within this category.

Universities: Institutions for higher education or postgraduate training having the legal power to award first and/or higher degrees.

An association or organization of Universities also falls within this category.

Users: Organizations making use of services in the field of electronics communications and related areas, whose main interest in electronics communications standards is in that capacity.

An association or organization of such Users also falls within this category.

The financial contribution of an ETSI member is not based on your participation in specific technical work, when you become a member you have access to all ETSI technical resources and work. Only the participation in 3GPP is subject to an extra fee for members in class of contribution 1 or 2.

Members’ contributions are calculated by class. Each class corresponds to an annual contribution/fee payable and a related voting weight.

Associations, Users not-for-profit Associations (end consumers), National Standards Organizations (NSOs), Universities, Public Research Bodies, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) and Micro-Enterprises correspond to class of contribution 1 with a flat fee.

Otherwise, the class is derived from the member company's annual ECRT or GDP for Administrations.
The contribution is based on your organization's annual Electronic Communications Related Turnover (ECRT) (or the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country for administrations responsible for electronics communications and related areas of their country).
For a detailed breakdown of the classes of contribution, see the contributions page.

ECRT is your Electronic Communications Related Turnover. A member organization's ECRT is defined as the worldwide turnover generated by all the member's products and services related to Article 2 'Purpose' and Article 3 'Scope of activities' of the ETSI Statutes. ECRT is your Electronic Communications Related Turnover. A member organization's ECRT is defined as the worldwide turnover generated by all the member's products and services related to Article 2 'Purpose' and Article 3 'Scope of activities' of the ETSI Statutes. The ECRT for an organization must be updated on a yearly basis.

When considering what ECRT to declare, members should take into consideration the entire turnover related to electronic communications related products, components and services, regardless of technology or standard used (e.g. WiFi and Bluetooth technologies are included). It includes sales of communications equipment, and sales of communications-related services or systems (network management, communications intelligence). Or alternatively sales to communication service providers. Gross turnover or revenue, and not net income, should be considered. When considering what ECRT to declare, members should take into consideration the entire turnover related to electronic communications related products, components and services, regardless of technology or standard used (e.g. WiFi and Bluetooth technologies are included). It includes sales of communications equipment, and sales of communications-related services or systems (network management, communications intelligence). Or alternatively sales to communication service providers. Gross turnover or revenue, and not net income, should be considered.

The Rules of Procedure, Annex 2, clause 6f) state that where a Member company is part of a corporate group, the ECRT is based upon the worldwide turnover generated by the entire corporate group's products and services related to electronic communications, not simply that of the Member company.

Where more than one company from a corporate group is an ETSI Member, the sum of ECRTs declared by these companies shall be equal to or greater than the ECRT calculated on the basis of the entire corporate group.

If your organization's ECRT cannot be determined from publicly available information, you will need to agree an appropriate class of contribution with the Director General.

For an Administration responsible for electronics communications and related areas of their country, the class of contribution is determined according to the latest published or available figure of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of its country. Reference World Bank.

Governmental organizations shall declare the latest GDP figures of their country and update that figure on a yearly basis. Governmental organizations shall declare the latest GDP figures of their country and update that figure on a yearly basis.

The member contribution payable for governmental organizations is available on the contributions page.

In accordance with Article 10.3 of the Rules of Procedure, and to ensure a correct application of the appropriate contribution scheme, each Full or Associate member shall declare or confirm to the Director-General, at least once a year, its current legal and financial situation. Any change to this situation shall be declared to the Director-General without delay.

The amount due for a given year is based on your organization's status as on the 30th September of the prior year.

The Secretariat will remind you during the summer months to declare your ECRT or GDP before the 30th September.

Applicants for membership are requested to make their payment on receipt of a pro-forma invoice. The payment must be received by ETSI prior to the submission of the application to the member online poll. If the payment is not received within 90 days of the application the said application will be suspended.

The member contribution is aligned to the calendar year. The invoice is sent in December year N-1 and is due on 1st January Year N. There is a 5% penalty for contributions and fees paid after 30 April. Fill information on the payment of member contributions and fees is available in Article 10 of the ETSI Rules of Procedure.The member contribution is aligned to the calendar year. The invoice is sent in December year N-1 and is due on 1st January Year N. There is a 5% penalty for contributions and fees paid after 30 April. Fill information on the payment of member contributions and fees is available in Article 10 of the ETSI Rules of Procedure.

It shall be noted that Membership will be tacitly renewed unless it is withdrawn before 30th September of the current year by the member organization (see Rules of Procedure, Article 1, clause 1.4.1 for full details).

No, it is prorated as follows:No, it is prorated as follows:

Our financial system is only set to Euros. You might initiate the payment in another currency, but the conversion rate should match the amount raised in Euro.

Yes, SMEs and MEs belong to class 1 and benefit from a preferential flat fee. See the contributions table on the contributions page.

Yes, universities and public research bodies belong to class 1 and benefit from a preferential flat rate. See table in the contribution page.

Yes, associations and not-for-profit user associations belong to class 1 and benefit from a preferential flat rate. See the table on the contributions page.

Cases are usually very different and for that reason you are invited to contact the membership team at membership@etsi.org

A member organization from a corporate or public group may decide to apply for an additional membership related to the same group. An additional member contributes an administrative fee (€6 300) considering that the “primary” member of the group already pays the member contribution based on the corporate group’s declared ECRT or GDP. There is no limit to the number of additional memberships within a corporate group or for an administration.

An additional member has 0 voting weights, but it may carry the voting weight associated to the Corporate or Public Group.

Fees and member contributions are excluding tax. Whether you need to pay VAT depends on your organization's VAT registration status and location. Here's how it works:

Yes. It is mandatory that each user of the organization has his own personal account. We will provide as many user accounts as required in order to follow all the areas of work you have an interest in.

Questions about general procedure

Yes. People will need to register their attendance under your organization’s name subject to the approval of the member organization’s official contact.

Special provisions are applicable for Associations that shall be represented in ETSI by their employees and elected officials. In addition, a maximum of one nominated technical expert, per meeting, shall be allowed to attend and participate in meetings and shall come from a Member of the said Association, unless explicitly authorized by the Director-General on a case-by-case basis.

This expert shall be officially nominated in writing by the said Association before the meeting begins. All employees, elected officials and/or nominated technical expert of an Association attending ETSI meetings shall only represent that Association’s views.

Yes, this should be provided to the Membership team.

No, your attendance at the General Assembly meeting is not mandatory but you may benefit from attending as it gives you the opportunity to express your interests and needs, participate in the management of the Institute and network with other members.

No. You will not be asked to make a presentation about your organization.

As soon as your application is validated by ETSI Director-General, you may attend meetings of technical committees, ISGs, working groups etc. You can only exercise your voting rights or hold official positions when your membership is effective (after formal approval at the quarterly online poll or at the GA).

Each user should send a request to ETSI via our User Account Application Form

To change your personal information, you can use the online form.

Only official contacts can submit a request to update his/her organization’s details.

Membership of ETSI will be tacitly renewed unless it is withdrawn by a member organization before the 30th September.

To resign your membership, please utilize either the online application on the Member Portal or send an email to the Membership team before  30th September. This ensures that your resignation takes effect at the end of the current calendar year.

Failure to do so will result in your membership remaining active until the end of the following year, and you will be required to pay the member financial contribution for that period.

ETSI's mentorship programme provides support when getting started within the ETSI community. Your organisation will be contacted upon obtention of the applicant ETSI member status. Should you need assistance getting started within ETSI, please contact: claire.desclercs@etsi.org  

Please contact the ETSI membership team via membership@etsi.org

All Member contributions and Observer fees will be based on the declared position of the Member/Observer, as at the 30th September of the prior year.

You can decide to have either a group membership composed of a primary member who pays the member contribution based on the global entity ECRT and additional membership(s) who pay an administrative fee and can carry the vote of the primary member.

The ECRT is based upon the worldwide turnover generated by the entire corporate group's products and services related to electronic communications, not simply that of the Member company. See the ETSI ECRT Definition.

Participation in oneM2M is included in the contribution for full and associate ETSI members and just needs to be requested.

Contact: oneM2M@etsi.org

3GPP individual membership is subject to an extra 3GPP contribution for class 1 and class 2 members.
Where Public and Corporate Groups hold multiple 3GPP memberships, they shall make an overall contribution that exceeds 20k€ multiplied by the number of 3GPP members to be exempted from paying the 3GPP minimum contribution for each of their 3GPP individual Members.

For participation in 3GPP face-to-face meetings another fee applies, based on the selected group of attendance.

Contact: membership@etsi.org 

Information on ISGs is available on this webpage or via our COMMITTEES page. 

Contact: ISGsupport@etsi.org

Contact our Director for Membership Development.

Contact our membership administration & care team.

Becoming a member

For enquiries related to becoming an ETSI member, please contact our Director for Membership Development.

Existing membership

For enquiries related to an existing ETSI membership, please contact the ETSI membership administration & care team by e-mail, phone or fax:

membership@etsi.org
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 42 69
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 65 47 16 (mark for the attention of Membership)

Fellowship Programme

The ETSI Fellowship programme honours and rewards those individuals who have made an outstanding personal contribution to ETSI, to build the work of ETSI, or raise its reputation in specific sectors of standardization.

Any individual representative of an ETSI member, with the exception of the members of the Awards Committee, may propose a maximum of one candidate per call for an ETSI Fellowship.

Although nominations may be made at any time, ETSI Fellowship awards are announced at the spring General Assembly each year.

To be eligible for an award, a candidate shall be nominated by at least four (4) individuals not belonging to the same ETSI member or Corporate Group or Public Group as the nominee, and not to one of the other nominators. Nominations from individuals from a varied mix of member categories would be strongly recommended.

ETSI Fellowships are awarded each year by an Award Committee composed of the ETSI General Assembly Chair and Vice-Chairs, the ETSI Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General.

Watch the VIDEO presenting our programme to know more.

Please send nominations to the ETSI Director-General using this document. 

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