{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-14/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-14/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2010/14",
  "legislation_title": "Decision of the European Central Bank of 16 September 2010 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes (ECB/2010/14) (2010/597/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-14",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Eurosystem commitments",
  "text": "1. The information, as specified by the Eurosystem, on euro banknotes and their machine-readable security features shall be provided to manufacturers by the Eurosytem in advance of the issue of a new banknote series and thereafter to enable them to build banknote handling machines that are able to pass the common test procedures and to adapt to new requirements.\n2. The information, as specified by the Eurosystem, on euro banknotes and their public security features shall be provided by the Eurosystem to cash handlers in advance of the issue of a new euro banknote series and thereafter to enable their staff members to be given any training required.\n3. Training by cash handlers of their staff members to ensure that trained staff members are competent to check euro banknotes for authenticity and fitness shall be supported by the Eurosystem.\n4. Cash handlers shall be informed by the Eurosystem of counterfeit threats when appropriate and may be required by the Eurosystem to take action, including imposing a temporary prohibition on the recirculation of the euro banknote denomination(s) of the series concerned.\n5. Manufacturers of banknote handling machines shall be informed by the Eurosystem of counterfeit threats as appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Decision of the European Central Bank of 7 September 2012 amending Decision ECB/2010/14 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes (ECB/2012/19) (2012/507/EU)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2010/14/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:15.711410+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}