Editing European Paintball Federation (section)

== Historical significance ==

The European Paintball Federation represents an important stage in the development of organised international paintball governance.

Where commercial tournament series traditionally focused on competition between privately organised teams, EPBF sought to establish a representative structure based on national paintball federations.

Its documented activities included:

* Development of continental governance structures
* Representation of national paintball associations
* Administration and regulation of European national-team championships
* Cooperation with the Millennium Series on championship scheduling
* Development of referee and technical standards
* Participation in international paintball governance and world championship planning

The federation's surviving annual reports, statutes, rules and congress records provide substantial primary documentation of efforts to establish formal European paintball administration during the 2010s.