{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-713/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-713/article-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences related to the fraudulent use of non-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 unlawful obtainment of a non-corporeal non-cash payment instrument, at least when this obtainment has involved the commission of one of the offences referred to in Articles 3 to 6 of Directive 2013/40/EU, or misappropriation of a non-corporeal non-cash payment instrument;\n(b) the fraudulent counterfeiting or falsification of a non-corporeal non-cash payment instrument;\n(c) the holding of an unlawfully obtained, counterfeit or falsified non-corporeal non-cash payment instrument for fraudulent use, at least if the unlawful origin is known at the time of the holding of the instrument;\n(d) the procurement for oneself or another, including the sale, transfer or distribution, or the making available, of an unlawfully obtained, counterfeit or falsified non-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/5",
    "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."
}