# 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 9: Independence of senior management

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

The senior management of payment card schemes or of the payment card scheme business unit shall be different from the senior management of processing entities or of the processing entity business unit, and act autonomously. The senior management of payment card schemes or payment card scheme business units shall not be allowed to take on work for processing entities or processing entity business units, and vice versa, for a minimum duration of one year after that senior management left the entity for which they have been working.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/72/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-72/article-9
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