What is considerd EU by Visa?

Visa EU represents 6,000 banks and financial institutions from 26 European countries ? comprising all of the countries of the European Free Trade Area, plus Turkey, Israel, Cyprus and Malta.

Together, these banks have issued over 180 million Visa cards ? and continue to issue new Visa cards at the rate of over 20,000 cards each day.

These cards account for nearly ?600 billion in cardholder sales volume ? which continues to grow at around 20 per cent each year.

The region has some very distinct characteristics. For example, the majority of Visa cards are debit cards, as opposed to credit cards, and many European countries have already begun the process of migrating to the new generation of chip cards.

This migration to chip is a central focus for Visa EU.

Visa EU has set a deadline of 2005 for the creation of chip card acceptance infrastructure; it has worked to ensure that all European countries adopt the EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) chip card specifications; it has set aside a chip migration fund to encourage early adoption; and it brokered a common, interoperable specification (CEPS) for the region?s electronic purse cards.

The Visa EU Region has also been active in developing e-commerce, m-commerce and tv-commerce solutions, which meet European needs, recognise existing European investments and accommodate emerging European payment habits.

For more information about the Visa EU region and the activities of Visa EU, please visit www.visaeu.com

Thanks, but is there a place where I can find all the countries listed under EU?

Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Germany
Austria

I think it's all

Ask George... He bought most of them , so he should be able to supply a list...

European Union Visa Region

Andorra
Austria
Bear Island
Belgium
Channel Islands
Cyprus
Denmark
Faroe Islands
France
Finland
Germany
Gibraltor
Greece
Greenland
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Isle of Man
Italy
Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Malta
Monaco
Norway
Netherlands
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UK
Vatican City

the entire list of ALL visa regions is here

The following members of European Union:
Denmark United Kingdom and Sweden using local currecncy. They don't use euro.

Mark

Thanks Corvett