Own European Broadcasting Union

The Own Eurovision Broadcasting Union (OEBU) is an association of public service media entities, with its headquarters located in Rome, Italy. It was established on 28 April 2012. In the present, 56 nations are active members of the association.

Active members of the association are able to participate in the Own Eurovision Song Contest.

Members
There are currently 56 active members of the Own Eurovision Broadcasting Union. The newest member of the OEBU is Egypt, who joined the union in January 2013. The current council members are Italy and Russia.

Current members

 * Color key
 * Council member
 * Current host

Past members
The following table lists the countries that are no longer eligible to participate in the contest.

Council
The OEBU Council is a congress of the heads of delegations of different countries of the Own European Broadcasting Union to discuss each edition's planning, to accept entries of the participating countries and to discuss general rules and standards of the Own Eurovision Song Contest.

This list shows the current and former permanent or temporary members of the OEBU council. Head members are written in bold. The council has currently five permanent members and one temporary member, traditionally the winning Head of Delegation of the previous edition.

Permanent members

 * Current members
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Adrià (September 2018–present)
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova Mihai (April 2012–present)


 * Former members
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania Edvinas (January 2015–May 2015)
 * 🇬🇷 Greece George (April 2016–December 2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Julian (August 2016–December 2019)
 * 🇬🇷 Greece Lefteris (December 2017–December 2019)
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria Nicky (October 2015–December 2015)
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia Rick (December 2015–February 2016)
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland William (February 2017–December 2019)

Temporary members

 * 🇪🇸 Alexito (February 2019–present)
 * 🇨🇾 Dimitris (September 2018-February 2019)
 * 🇬🇧 Alex (February 2017–August 2018)
 * 🇵🇱 Michal (August 2017–March 2018)
 * 🇳🇴 Torbjørn (May 2017–August 2017)
 * 🇪🇪 Mark (October 2016–February 2017)