EuroCity: who designates them, and is Wikipedia's list accurate?

I've taken some interest in the EuroCity network of international trains.

Wikipedia has a list, but I'm not sure how up to date or accurate it is. Is there an overarching railway administration body in the EU that agrees on train numbers, EuroCity status, etc? Where can a definitive and up-to-date list of current EC (and EN) services be found?

Thanks in advance!

In essence, EuroCity are cross-border services of an InterCity standard, but excluding branded high-speed like TGV/ICE/Railjet etc.

The German wikipedia page on EuroCity says it's the UIC who control the designation in terms of specifying the quality provided:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCity

Mit Einführung des EC-Verkehrs wurden für alle beteiligten Bahnen einheitliche Qualitätskriterien eingeführt, die vom Internationalen Eisenbahnverband UIC auch überwacht wurden

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I would have thought it's the UIC who assigned the train numbers. However, this page (again in German):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugnummer#Internationaler_Personenverkehr
says it's the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) who are going to assign the train numbers according to the forthcoming TSI OPE (Technical Specification for Interoperability - Operation and traffic management):

Die kommende Spezifikation TSI OPE[1], die gerade von der Europäischen Eisenbahnagentur (ERA) erarbeitet wird, soll die Vergabe von Zugnummern europaweit vorschreiben.

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jamesontheroad said:

I've taken some interest in the EuroCity network of international trains.

Wikipedia has a list, but I'm not sure how up to date or accurate it is. Is there an overarching railway administration body in the EU that agrees on train numbers, EuroCity status, etc? Where can a definitive and up-to-date list of current EC (and EN) services be found?

Thanks in advance!

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The Wikipedia list is a year or two out of date, as Prague-Vienna(-Graz) is now Railjet and (Germany-)Prague-Budapest has been split at Prague with the exception of the Hungaria.
Not an official list, but if you go to https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/index.php?rok=2019 and click on the category EC against each country you will get the current numbers, names and routes.

Thanks for the info.

I'm not thinking about a Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall all-the-stations style trip, but I would like to keep a list, and try to tick off as many routes (note - routes, not individually numbered trains) as possible. It might take decades, but it'd be fun to seek out the increasingly threatened non-high-speed international trains.

I've just been on what I thought were EC130 (ÖBB Railjet Venice-Vienna), and EC22 (DB ICE Vienna-Dortmund), but on checking they were indeed designated as RJ and ICE respectively.
They were manned by "foreigners" outside their domestic routes though (ie Trenitalia crew Venice-Tarvisio and ÖBB crew Vienna-Passau).