# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/72 of 4 October 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2015/751 of the European Parliament and of the Council on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions with regard to regulatory technical standards establishing the requirements to be complied with by payment card schemes and processing entities to ensure the application of independence requirements in terms of accounting, organisation and decision-making process (Text with EEA relevance), Article 10: Independence of staff

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The staff of payment card schemes shall be different from the staff of processing entities.
2. The staff of payment card schemes and of processing entities may perform tasks related to the provision of shared services as referred to in Article 12.
3. The staff of a processing entity may perform tasks related to the design of the single set of rules, practices, standards and implementation guidelines for the execution of card-based payment transactions, provided that:
(a) the tasks related to the design of the single set of rules may be performed by other processing entities on a non-discriminatory basis;
(b) the design of those rules involves a representative sample of all processing entities participating in the payment card scheme.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/72/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-72/article-10
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