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About us > Presentation > History > Organisation > FEP Members > Statistics History The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) is an independent, non commercial umbrella association of book publishers associations in the European Union. It first saw the light of day - under a different name - on 19th January 1967. 1958 First consideration about monitoring European matters. 1967 GELC (Groupement des éditeurs de livres de la Communauté) founded by Belgian, French, Italian, Dutch and German Publishers Associations. 1973 British, Danish and Irish Publishers Associations join GELC as their countries become member of the European Community. 1981 Greek Publishers Association joins GELC as its country becomes member of the European Community. 1984 GELC secretariat is reorganised to give it a permanent representative with EC officials and directorate generals. 1986 Spanish and Portuguese Publishers Associations join GELC as their countries gain membership of the European Community. 1990 The Federation of European Publishers (FEP)/ la Fédération des Editeurs Européen (FEE) becomes the umbrella organisation representing European book publishers associations, Luxembourg Publishers Association joins FEP. 1992 Austrian and Finnish Publishers join FEP. The Norwegian association also adheres, even though a referendum rejects Norwegian EC membership. 1996 FEP drafts new statutes designed to ensure that candidates associations from Central and Eastern Europe could become members. 1997 FEP 30th anniversary 2002 Hungarian,Cyprus, Czech Republic and Slovenian Publishers Associations join FEP 2003 Lithuanian Publishers Association joins FEP 2004 Polish,Estonian and Icelandic Publishers Associations join FEP 2006 Bulgarian Publishers Association joins FEP 2007 FEP 40th anniversary  | |
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