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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-39/annex-III",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/39",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-39",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "‘ANNEX IV\nDATA COLLECTION FROM CASH HANDLERS\n1.\nObjectives\nThe objectives of data collection are to enable the national central banks (NCBs) and the European Central Bank (ECB) to monitor the relevant activities of cash handlers and to oversee developments in the cash cycle.\n2.\nGeneral principles\n2.1.\nData on banknote handling machines must be reported when the machines are used pursuant to this Decision. Coin dispensing machines (CDMs) are exempt from reporting obligations.\n2.2.\nCash handlers regularly provide the NCB of their Member State with the following:\ninformation on establishments where cash is handled such as branch offices, and\ninformation on banknote handling machines and cash dispensers.\n2.3.\nIn addition, cash handlers that recirculate euro banknotes via banknote handling machines and cash dispensers regularly provide the NCB of their Member State with both of the following:\ninformation on the volume of cash operations (number of euro banknotes processed) involving banknote handling machines and cash dispensers,\ninformation on remote branches of credit institutions with a low level of cash operations where fitness checks are carried out manually.\n3.\nType of data and reporting requirements\n3.1.\nDepending on their nature, the data collected are divided into master data and operational data.\nMaster data\n3.2.\nMaster data cover information on: (a) the individual cash handlers and their banknote handling machines and cash dispensers in operation; and (b) remote branches of credit institutions.\n3.3.\nMaster data are provided to the NCB at the date of application of this Decision and every six months thereafter. The data specified in the template set out in Appendix 1 must be provided, although the NCB may require them to be provided in a different format.\n3.4.\nAn NCB may decide, for monitoring purposes, to collect the data at local level, such as at branch offices.\n3.5.\nAn NCB may require the cash handlers to indicate the cash-recycling machines (CRMs) that are used as combined cash-in machines (CCMs) or cash-in machines (CIMs) respectively, and the CCMs that are used as CIMs.\n3.6.\nData on remote branches specified in the template set out in Appendix 3 must be provided, although the NCB may require them to be provided in a different format.\nOperational data\n3.7.\nData originating from the processing and recirculation of euro banknotes by cash handlers are classified as operational data.\n3.8.\nAn NCB may decide to exclude other economic agents, as referred to in Article 6(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001, from the obligation to report operational data if the number of euro banknotes they recirculate via cash dispensers is below a threshold determined by the NCB.\n3.9.\nData are provided on a six-monthly basis. The data are reported to the NCB at the latest two months after the relevant reporting period, i.e. end-February and end-August. Data may be provided using the template set out in Appendix 2. NCBs may for a transitional period ask for monthly reporting, if this was their practice prior to this Decision entering into force, or for quarterly reporting.\n3.10.\nData are provided by cash handlers which physically handle euro banknotes. If a cash handler has outsourced the checking for authenticity and fitness to another cash handler, the data are provided by the cash handler designated in accordance with Article 3(2).\n3.11.\nData are reported by cash handlers in terms of pieces (volume), aggregated at national level and broken down by euro banknote denomination. A breakdown by banknote series is not required. For remote branches of credit institutions, operational data is reported separately.\n3.12.\nAn NCB may decide, for monitoring reasons, to collect the data at local level, such as at branch offices.\n3.13.\nCash handlers which have outsourced authenticity and fitness checking to other cash handlers may be requested to provide detailed information to the NCB on the latter, including the outsourcing arrangements.\n3.14.\nData on remote branches specified in the template set out in Appendix 3 must be provided, although the NCB may require them to be provided in a different format and may agree with cash handlers to collect more extensive data.\n4.\nConfidentiality and publication of data\n4.1.\nBoth master data and operational data are treated as confidential.\n4.2.\nThe NCBs and the ECB may decide to publish reports or statistics using data acquired under this Annex. Any such publication is aggregated in such a way that no data can be attributed to single reporting entities.\nAppendix 1\nREPORTING TEMPLATE\nMaster data\nThis information is to be provided to:\n[Name of NCB; contact details for queries; address]\n1.\nCash handler information\nCash handler’s name:\nHeadquarter address:\nZip/postal code:\nCity:\nStreet:\nType of company:\nCredit institution\nBureau de change\nCash in transit company which is not a payment institution\nTrader (retailer)\nCasino\nOther, including payment institutions where not already categorised as one of the above (specify)\nContact persons:\nNames:\nTelephone Nos:\nTelefax Nos:\nEmail addresses:\nOutsourcing partner (if relevant)\nName:\nAddress:\nZip/postal code:\nCity:\n2.\nCustomer-operated machines\nThese entries are to be completed in accordance with the corresponding entries on the ECB’s website.\nMachine category\nIdentification number\nManufacturer\nMachine name\nIdentification(detector system/software versions)\nTotal number in operation\nCIMs\nCRMs\nCCMs\nCOMs\n3.\nStaff-operated machines\nThese entries are to be completed in accordance with the corresponding entries on the ECB’s website.\nMachine category\nIdentification number\nManufacturer\nMachine name\nIdentification(detector system/software versions)\nTotal number in operation\nBPMs\nBAMs\nTARMs\nTAMs\n4.\nCash dispensers not included in the above table on customer-operated machines\nTotal number in operation\nATMs\nSCoTs\nOthers\nAppendix 2\nREPORTING TEMPLATE\nOperational data\n1.\nCash handler information\nCash handler’s name\nReporting period\n2.\nData\nThe following data items need to be aggregated at national or regional level, as decided by the NCB — excluding remote branches.\nTotal number of euro banknotes processed\nEuro banknotes sorted as unfit\nEuro banknotes recirculated\nEUR 5\nEUR 10\nEUR 20\nEUR 50\nEUR 100\nEUR 200\nEUR 500\nIn the above table, the column with the heading “Total number of euro banknotes processed” needs to contain the total number of banknotes whose authenticity and fitness have been checked on banknote handling machines, i.e. cash-recycling machines (CRMs), cash-out machines (COMs), teller assistant recycling machines (TARMs) and banknote processing machines (BPMs), and combined cash-in and cash-out machines (CCMs) with optional fitness checking. The following banknotes are not included in this data: (a) banknotes whose authenticity and fitness check is carried out manually, e.g. over-the-counter operations or back-office operations; (b) banknotes that have been checked for authenticity but not for fitness on banknote handling machines, e.g. banknotes authenticated on cash-in machines (CIMs), CCMs (without optional fitness checking), teller assistant machines (TAMs) and banknote authentication machines (BAMs).\nThe column with the heading “Euro banknotes sorted as unfit” is a subset of the total number of euro banknotes processed and needs to contain the number of banknotes that have been classified as genuine and unfit (i.e. category 4b) by the machines. This data item relates to CRMs, COMs, TARMs and BPMs, and to CCMs with optional fitness checking.\nThe column with the heading “Euro banknotes recirculated” is a subset of the total number of euro banknotes processed and:\n(a) for CRMs, COMs and TARMs, needs to contain the number of banknotes that have been classified as genuine and fit (i.e. category 4a) by the machines and dispensed to customers as provided by the machines’ statistics;\n(b) for BPMs and CCMs with optional fitness checking, needs to contain the number of banknotes that have been classified as genuine and fit (i.e. category 4a) by the machines and that have not been returned to the NCB, but kept with the intention of recirculating the banknotes back into the cash cycle.\nNumber of euro banknotes distributed via customer operated machines and cash dispensers\nIf an NCB applies the exception for remote branches laid down in Article 7, these data are mandatory for the credit institutions of that Member State. Credit institutions must consult their NCBs to ascertain whether these data must be reported.\nAppendix 3\nREMOTE BRANCHES OF CREDIT INSTITUTIONS\nThis information is provided only by credit institutions which have remote branches as referred to in Article 7(1).\n1.\nCredit institution information\nCredit institution’s name\nReporting period\n2.\nData\nName of remote branch\nAddress\nNumber of euro banknotes distributed via customer-operated machines and cash dispensers\n’",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001 of 28 June 2001 laying down measures necessary for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting ( OJ L 181, 4.7.2001, p. 6)."
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "These entries are to be completed in accordance with the corresponding entries on the ECB’s website."
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "These entries are to be completed in accordance with the corresponding entries on the ECB’s website."
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