EPCI was established in 1998 as a a certification institute for Bancontact/MisterCash (BC/MC) & Proton terminals that implemented specific BC/MC & Proton terminal specifications published as of 1999. For more info, please refer to EPCI While the original mandate for EPCI came from the issuers of BC/MC cards, EPCI started to operate a terminal certification for additional specification that were instrumental for a group of acquirers, with an initial focus on credit cards. The motivation was straightforward: many terminals accepted both the BC/MC or Proton cards next to credit cards. In addition credit card terminals needed to provide seamless interoperability with multiple acquirers. | As of 2001, multiple terminal specifications were certified for this domain of activity:
Given the international success of C-TAP, it was decided in 2010 to consolidate the C-TAP specification in Acquiris. The transfer was organised in 2011. |
Following certificates were provided by EPCI to vendors having certified C-TAP terminals or C-TAP functionality on multi-application terminals, according to the Belgian Version of the C-TAP specifications.
C-TAP semi-off-line terminals - situation on December 31st 2010
These certificates remain valid for as long as the specification versions for which these terminals were certified remain supported by the acquirers that have commissioned certification to EPCI. Please note that C-TAP terminals also require EMVCo and PCI SSC preliminary certifications and the deployment of terminals is therefore also conditioned by the rules of EMVCo and PCI SSC.
Certificates are contractual documents between terminal vendors and EPCI. This page only represents a list of certificates and it is possible that not all certificates are included in this list. The final proof is the certificate itself.
C-TAP on-line terminals - situation on December 31st 2010
- Atos Worldline acquired Banksys on 7 December 2006
- Thales became an Hypercom and later Verifone brand