Abstract. In this paper, we study the parametric well-posedness for vector equilibrium problems and propose a generalized well-posed concept for equilibrium problems with equilibrium constraints (EPEC in short) in topological vector spaces setting. We show that under suitable conditions, the well-posedness defined by approximating solution nets is equivalent to the upper semicontinuity of the solution mapping of perturbed problems. Further, since optimization problems and variational inequality problems are special cases of equilibrium problems, related variational problems can be adopted under some equivalent conditions. Finally, we also study the relationship between well-posedness and parametric well-posedness.1. Introduction. The concept of well-posedness is closely related to stability, approximation and numerical analysis. An initial concept of well-posedness introduced by Tykhonov, was given in scalar optimization (see [4]). Since then many kinds of well-posedness concepts and applications in game theory and vector optimization problems were studied (see [2]). Extensions of well-posedness to other related problems, such as fixed point problems (see [14]), variational inequality problems (see [15]) and bilevel optimization problems (see [19]), were considered. Recently, Lignola and Morgan [15] studied well-posedness for a class of mathematical program