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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 21 Feb 2024
on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services and electronic money services in the Internal Market amending Directive 98/26/EC and repealing Directives 2015/2366/EU and 2009/110/EC
To · adopted text· 23 Apr 2024
Payment services and electronic money services in the internal market
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Changed:(17) The evaluation of the implementation of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 did not identify a clear need to substantially change the conditions for granting and maintaining authorisation as payment institutions or electronic money institutions prescribed under, respectively, Directives 2007/64/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2015/2366/EU,(EU) 2015/2366, on the one hand, and Directive 2009/110/EC on the other hand. Such conditions continue to include prudential requirements proportionate to the operational and financial risks faced by payment institutions, including institutions issuing electronic money and providing electronic money services in the course of their business. It is appropriate to add to the documentation required in support of an application for authorisation as a payment institution a winding-up plan for the eventuality of failure, proportionate to the business model of the future payment institution; that winding-up plan should be appropriate to support an orderly wind-up of activities under applicable national law, including continuity or recovery of any critical activities performed by outsourced service providers, agents or distributors. To avoid that authorisation is granted for services that are not effectively provided by a payment institution, it is necessary to specify that a payment institution should not be obliged to obtain an authorisation for payment services that it does not intend to provide.
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Changed:(33) Considering the higher risks of deposit-taking activity, it is appropriate to prohibit payment institutions offering payment services from accepting deposits from users, and to require them to only use funds received from users for providing payment services. Funds received from payment service users by payment institutions offering electronic money services should constitute neither a deposit nor other repayable funds received from the public within the meaning of Article 9 of Directive 2013/36/EC2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.
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Changed:(37) To ensure that an undertaking does not provide payment services or electronic money services without being authorised, it is appropriate to require all undertakings intending to provide payment services or electronic money services to apply for an authorisation, except where this Directive provides for registration instead of authorisation. Furthermore, in order to ensure the stability and integrity of the financial system and payment systems and to protect consumers, such undertakings must be established in a Member State and effectively supervised. This requirement should also cover payment institutions issuing electronic money, given the significant new prudential risks associated with the possibility for electronic money institutions to also issue electronic money tokens. The establishment of a legal person in the EU should be required for electronic money issuers to enable effective supervision of those entities, and to align with Regulation 2023/1114/EU.(EU) 2023/1114. Electronic money tokens are a form of crypto-asset which can scale up significantly in size and pose risks affecting financial stability, monetary sovereignty and monetary policy.
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Changed:(57) Member States should be able to require payment institutions operating on their territory, whose head office is situated in another Member State, to report to them periodically on their activities in their territory for information or statistical purposes. Where those payment institutions operate pursuant to the right of establishment, the competent authorities of the host Member State(s) should be able to require that information also to be used for monitoring compliance with Regulation XXX [PSR]. The same should apply where there is no establishment in the host Member State(s), and the payment institution is providing services in the host Member State(s) on the basis of the free provision of services. To facilitate the supervision of networks of agents, distributors or branches by competent authorities, it is appropriate that Member States where agents, distributors or branches operate are able to require the parent payment institution to appoint a central contact point in their territory. Where a Member State does impose such a requirement, each payment institution should appoint only one central contact point per Member State. The EBA should develop regulatory standards setting out the criteria to determine when the appointment of a central contact point is appropriate and what its functions should be. While doing so, the EBA should take into account the experience gained in the application of Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2021/1722 and (EU) 2020/1423. The requirement to appoint a central contact point should be proportionate to achieving the aim of adequate communication and information reporting on compliance with the relevant provisions in Regulation XXX [PSR] in the host Member State.
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Changed:(63) Directives 2007/64/EC and 2015/2366/EU(EU) 2015/2366 conditionally excluded from their scope payment services offered by certain deployers of automated teller machines (ATMs). That exclusion has stimulated the growth of ATM services in many Member States, in particular in less populated areas, supplementing bank ATMs. However, this exclusion has proven difficult to apply due to its ambiguity with regard to the entities covered by it. To address this issue, it is appropriate to make explicit that previously excluded ATM deployers are those which do not service payment accounts. Taking into account the limited risks involved in the activity of such ATM deployers, it is appropriate, instead of excluding them totally from the scope, to subject them to a specific prudential regime adapted to those risks, requiring only a registration regime.
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Changed:(f) a description of the procedure in place to monitor, handle and follow up a security incident and security related customer complaints, including an incident reporting mechanism which takes account of the notification obligations of the payment institution laid down in Chapter III of Regulation (EU) 2022/ 2554;2022/2554;
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Changed:6. Payment institutions that provide electronic money services shall exchange any funds, including cash or scriptural money, received by that payment institution from payment service users for electronic money without delay. Such funds shall neither constitute a deposit, nor other repayable funds received from the public within the meaning of Article 9 of Directive 2013/36/EC.2013/36/EU.
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