{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-713/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2019/713",
  "legislation_title": "Directive (EU) 2019/713 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on combating fraud and counterfeiting of non-cash means of payment and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/413/JHA",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-713",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences related to the fraudulent use of corporeal non-cash payment instruments",
  "text": "Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, when committed intentionally, the following conduct is punishable as a criminal offence:\n(a) the theft or other unlawful appropriation of a corporeal non-cash payment instrument;\n(b) the fraudulent counterfeiting or falsification of a corporeal non-cash payment instrument;\n(c) the possession of a stolen or otherwise unlawfully appropriated, or of a counterfeit or falsified corporeal non-cash payment instrument for fraudulent use;\n(d) the procurement for oneself or another, including the receipt, appropriation, purchase, transfer, import, export, sale, transport or distribution of a stolen, counterfeit or falsified corporeal non-cash payment instrument for fraudulent use.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2019/713/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:27.698480+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."
}