The Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ΕΤΕΚ) is the statutory Technical Advisor to the State and is the umbrella organisation for all Cypriot Engineers. It was established by Law 224/1990 and is a Public Law Body with an elected Governing Body. It has an office and a Service capable of promoting its objects.

Chamber Management: The Chamber is governed by a thirty-member General Council, which is elected directly by ETEK members for a three-year term of office. The General Council elects its President, General Secretary, General Treasurer and four other members who form the Administrative Committee. The Administrative Committee is the Chamber`s executive and co-ordinating body, with powers to implement its policy, as this is shaped by the Chamber.

Objectives and powers: The objective of ΕΤΕΚ is to promote science in the various sectors related to the fields of specialisation of its members, engineering and technology in general and to develop them with a view to the self-sufficient economic, social and cultural development of the Republic.

Fields of the science of engineering:

A field of the science of engineering in which the members of ETEK are registered are as follows:

(a) architecture including landscape architecture

(b) civil engineering including landscape engineering

(c) mechanical engineering

(d) electrical engineering

(e) electronic engineering including information technology engineering

(f) chemical engineering

(g) mine and applied geology engineering

(h) agronomic-topographic engineering

(i) land survey and valuation

(j) Town and Spatial Planning

Any other field of engineering science determined by a decision of the Council of Ministers, following a suggestion by the Chamber, as a field of engineering science for the purposes of this Law.