Traduction de «Billet susceptible d'être contrefait » (Français → Anglais) :

Furthermore, experience so far has shown no particular security problems with the EUR 500 and EUR 200 banknotes, which are in fact among the least counterfeited banknote denominations.

I have no indication that there is bad cooperation between Member States and between European institutions, including Europol where I have been and where I have seen the technology of detecting counterfeit banknotes and coins.

Amongst other things that amendment should enable the necessary distinction to be made between the various types of establishment which place our common currency into circulation. On the one hand there are the major credit, financial, economic, commercial and cash-transport organisations to which the direct obligation to carry out authentification would apply. In the particular case of large shopping complexes the requirement to carry out authentification would prevent most complexes from distributing via their automatic cash dispensers notes and coins which have not been checked and may as a consequence be false. On the other hand there would be small traders who for obvious reasons would be required only to proceed with ‘due diligence’ - ...[+++]i.e. to withdraw any euro notes and coins which they know or have sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit.

AA. whereas ACTA footnote 9 states: 'Each Party shall treat wilful importation or exportation of counterfeit trademark goods or pirated copyright goods on a commercial scale as unlawful activities subject to criminal penalties under this Article. A Party may comply with its obligation relating to exportation and importation of pirated copyright or counterfeit trademark goods by providing for distribution, sale or offer for sale of counterfeit trademark goods or pirated copyright goods on a commercial scale as unlawful activities subject to criminal penalties',

Without prejudice to the Member States’ competence to establish sanctions against the institutions referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001 that fail to discharge their obligations thereunder, the Eurosystem must be able to take appropriate administrative measures to ensure that the procedures defined by the ECB are complied with and that the rules and procedures established under this Decision are not circumvented with the consequent risk of counterfeit and unfit banknotes not being detected or being put back into circulation,

In the legislation of seven Member States (Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia), the concept of counterfeit currency expressly includes banknotes and coins which are not yet issued but are designated for circulation.