{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-389/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-389/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/389",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389 of 27 November 2017 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-389",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Requirements of devices and software linked to elements categorised as inherence",
  "text": "1. Payment service providers shall adopt measures to mitigate the risk that the authentication elements categorised as inherence and read by access devices and software provided to the payer are uncovered by unauthorised parties. At a minimum, the payment service providers shall ensure that those access devices and software have a very low probability of an unauthorised party being authenticated as the payer.\n2. The use by the payer of those elements shall be subject to measures ensuring that those devices and the software guarantee resistance against unauthorised use of the elements through access to the devices and the software.",
  "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/eur/2018/389/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:14.007205+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."
}