Translation of "paiement minimum " (French → English) :

Where the provision is not free of charge, the total amount of charges for using the minimum payment services should be reasonable.

São Tomé and Príncipe thus receives €100 per tonne of tuna caught, with payment for a minimum of 7.000 tonnes guaranteed per year, plus additional funds for developing the national fisheries sector

55. Recalls that while the final responsibility for security measures relating to different payment methods cannot lie with customers, they should be informed about security precautions, and financial institutions should be responsible for fraud costs, unless caused by the customer ‘by acting fraudulently or by failing to fulfil one or more of his obligations under Article 56 of the Payment Service Directive with intent or gross negligence’; considers, therefore, that public information campaigns should be encouraged with a view to increasing public awareness and knowledge of digital security issues in particular; calls on the Commissi ...[+++]on, when developing a strategy and instruments for the integration of payment markets by card, internet and mobile phone, to take into account the standards and recommendations of EDPS regarding transparency, identification of the controller/ processor, proportionality and rights of the data subject; considers it important that all payment frauds in SEPA are reported to a centralised site for monitoring, statistics and evaluation, in order to respond quickly to new security threats, and that the main developments should be made public; asks the Commission to extend the concept of privacy by design beyond authentication mechanisms and security safeguards so as to ensure data minimisation, to implement privacy by default settings, to limit the access to individual's information to what is strictly needed to provide the service,- and to implement tools enabling users to better protect their personal data;

Member States should ensure that payment services providers provide national authorities with reliable information at least on the number of basic payment accounts opened, the number of applications for basic payment accounts refused and the grounds of such refusals, the number of terminations of such accounts as well as the charges associated to basic payment accounts on an annual basis.

Thirdly, if the aforementioned payment deadlines are exceeded, recovery costs of at least EUR 40 and interest of at least 8% above the European Central Bank base interest rate can be charged without a prior reminder.

Seven Member States provide for maximum penalties of imprisonment for Article 2 offences: AT provides for a maximum of five years for counterfeiting, receiving and fraudulent use; CY provides for a maximum of 14 years for counterfeiting payment instruments and seven years for using and acquiring them; DK a maximum of six years for counterfeiting and theft of payment instruments and 18 months for using them; LV ten years for the theft, acquisition and destruction of payment instruments and between 3 and 15 years for counterfeiting, fraudulent use and use of false payment instruments; LT a maximum of six years for using false instrumen ...[+++]ts; NL seven years; PT penalises the acquisition of false payment instruments with three years’ imprisonment, currency trafficking with a maximum of five years, using falsified bearer cheques with six months to five years and falsification with three years (minimum) to twelve years (maximum); in SE there is a maximum of ten years for theft, falsification and receiving, only if the offence is serious (“gross”).