Speaking at the 
Eurofi  Conference on “Europe’s Retail Financial Services” in Brussels Mrs Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, outlined the views of the 
ECB  on the creation of a single European payments area. 
In order to successfully conduct the SEPA  migration Mrs Tumpel-Gugerell said that the ECB  and NCBs are ready to give support. “We will present in September a comprehensive timetable for the coming implementation steps of the SEPA  project”, she said.
In my view, it is important to remove barriers, to introduce competition and to allow the market to take up the business opportunities”, Mrs Tumpel-Gugerell said. “Standardization, choice of processing systems and single pricing for all SEPA  domestic transactions are the steps that should be taken and there a clear signs that indeed the industry is taking these steps” she added.
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