1. The ECB and the NCAs shall adopt internal rules prohibiting the members of their bodies and their staff members from soliciting, receiving or accepting a promise related to receiving for themselves or any other person any advantage connected in any way with the performance of their official duties.
2. The ECB and the NCAs may specify in their internal rules exemptions from the prohibition laid down in paragraph 1 as regards advantages offered by central banks, Union institutions bodies or agencies, international organisations and government agencies, or as regards advantages of a customary or negligible value offered by the private sector provided in the latter case that these advantages are neither frequent nor from the same source. The ECB and the NCAs shall ensure that these exemptions do not influence or may not be perceived as influencing the independence and impartiality of the members of their bodies and of their staff members.
3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, no exemptions shall be made for advantages offered by credit institutions to ECB or NCA staff members during on-site inspections or audit missions except hospitality of a negligible value offered during work-related meetings.