Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Decision:
1. ‘NCB’ means the national central bank of a Member State whose currency is the euro.
2. ‘Cash handlers’ means the institutions and economic agents referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001.
3. ‘Recirculation’ means the action, by cash handlers, of putting back into circulation, directly or indirectly, euro banknotes that they have received, either from the public as payment or as a deposit in a bank account, or from another cash handler.
4. ‘Banknote handling machine’ means a customer-operated or staff-operated machine as defined in Annex I.
5. ‘Type of banknote handling machine’ means a banknote handling machine that can be distinguished from other banknote handling machines as described in Annex I.
6. ‘Common test procedures’ means the test procedures, as specified by the ECB, to be applied by NCBs in order to test types of banknote handling machine.
7. ‘Trained staff members’ means employees of cash handlers who have: (a) knowledge of the different public security features of euro banknotes, as specified and published by the Eurosystem, and the ability to check them; and (b) knowledge of the sorting criteria listed in Annex IIIb and the ability to check euro banknotes in accordance with them.
8. ‘Counterfeit euro banknotes’ means counterfeit banknotes as defined in Article 2(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001.
9. ‘Cash dispenser’ means a self-service machine which, through the use of a bank card or other means, dispenses euro banknotes to the public, debiting a bank account, such as an automated teller machine (ATM) dispensing cash. Self-checkout terminals (SCoTs) with which the public can pay for goods or services either by bank card, cash or other payment instruments, having a cash-withdrawal function, are also considered cash dispensers.
10. ‘Competent national authorities’ means authorities as defined in Article 2(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001.
11. ‘Unfit euro banknotes’ means euro banknotes which are evaluated as unsuitable for recirculation following the fitness checking referred to in Article 6.
12. ‘Credit institution’ means a credit institution as defined in Article 4(1)(a) of Directive 2006/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 relating to the taking up and pursuit of the business of credit institutions .
13. ‘
Euro banknotes
’
means those banknotes complying with the requirements of Decision ECB/2013/10
or any other legal act replacing or complementing that Decision and with the technical specifications laid down by the Governing Council.
OJ L 177, 30.6.2006, p. 1.
Decision ECB/2013/10 of
19 April 2013
on the denominations, specifications, reproduction, exchange and withdrawal of euro banknotes (
OJ L 118, 30.4.2013, p. 37
).
Substituted by Decision (EU) 2019/2195 of the European Central Bank of 5 December 2019 amending Decision ECB/2010/14 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes (ECB/2019/39).