The Association comprises the following bodies: a Governing Board (GB), a Management Committee (MC) and an Executive Board (EB).
The Chairmanship of CEDR follows a rotation principle and membership of the MC comprises the current, previous two and following two chairman according to the following list.
2016 – Poland
2017 – Spain
2018 – Slovenia
2019 – Sweden
2020 – Switzerland
2021 – United Kingom
2022 – Portugal
2023 – Austria
The Action Plan committee consists of the coordinators of the five focus areas (elected from the EB) under the Chairmanship of the EB member of the Chairing country plus the two following EB Chairs.