The governing body of ECOL is the Supervisory Board, which consists of three members. As stipulated in the ECOL statutes, one board member represents the crane users, one the crane manufacturers and the third one the labour unions.
The present composition of the Supervisory board is:
Chair: Mr. Ton Klijn – ESTA Director
Mr. Klaus Meissner – Chairman standard EN13000 mobile cranes and representative of FEM mobile cranes [EU manufacturer association]
Mr. Arnold Niekamp – District Manager of the Dutch employees/crane operators trade union: Vakvereniging Het Zwarte Corps [HZC]