ANNEX II
REPORTING FOR PAYMENT SERVICES PROVIDERS OF LEVEL OF CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNTS, AND REJECTED TRANSACTIONS - INSTRUCTIONS
Table of Contents
REPORTING FOR PAYMENT SERVICES PROVIDERS OF LEVEL OF CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNTS, AND REJECTED TRANSACTIONS - INSTRUCTIONS | 9 |
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS | 10 |
TEMPLATE S 01.01: TOTAL NUMBER AND TOTAL VALUE OF CREDIT TRANSFERS, AND OF INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS | 11 |
TEMPLATE S 01.02: TOTAL NUMBER AND TOTAL VALUE OF CREDIT TRANSFERS, AND OF INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS (only for PSPs in non-euro Member States) | 16 |
TEMPLATE S 02.01: CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS | 16 |
TEMPLATE S 02.02: CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS (only for PSPs in non-euro Member States) | 18 |
TEMPLATE S 03.00: TOTAL NUMBER OF PAYMENT ACCOUNTS, AND TOTAL CHARGES FOR PAYMENT ACCOUNTS (NATIONAL CURRENCY) | 19 |
TEMPLATE S 04.00: NUMBER OF REJECTED INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS | 20 |
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Content
1. | This Annex contains the instructions for completing the reporting templates in Annex I. The instructions are addressed to the Payment Service Providers (PSPs). The instructions contain legal references for each of the templates. |
2. | Annex I consists of six different templates: Total number and total value of credit transfers, and of instant credit transfers (national currency) (S 01.01) Total number and total value of credit transfers, and of instant credit transfers (euro) (S 01.02) Charges for credit transfers and instant credit transfers (national currency) (S 02.01) Charges for credit transfers and instant credit transfers (euro) (S 02.02) Total number of payment accounts, and total charges for payment accounts (national currency) (S 03.00) Number of rejected instant credit transfers (S 04.00). |
3. | In Annex I, in columns “Number”, PSPs shall report numerical values following the specific instructions given for the templates. |
4. | The following general notation is followed in these instructions: {Template; Row; Column; z-axis}. In the case of templates with only one column, only rows are referred to {Template; Row}, with z-axis where applicable. |
Scope of reporting
5. | PSPs located in euro Member States in scope for the reporting obligations based on Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) shall report templates S 01.01, S 02.01, S 03.00 and S 04.00, with all the data points presented in this Annex, unless the national competent authorities in their jurisdiction allow them to send only a reference (including a link, where available) to identical previously submitted data points. |
6. | PSPs located in non-euro Member States which offer the payment service of receiving and sending regular credit transfers in euro are also within the scope of the obligations to offer their PSUs the payment service of receiving and sending instant credit transfers in euro. Those PSPs should also comply with obligations regarding the charges levied on payers and payees in respect of sending and receiving instant credit transfers in euro. As such, those PSPs are also within the scope of the reporting obligations based on Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012. Therefore, they shall report all templates with all the data points presented in this Annex, unless the national competent authorities in their jurisdiction allow them to send only a reference (including a link, where available) to identical previously submitted data points. |
7. | Branches of PSPs located in Member States other than Member States of their parent entities shall submit their data to the competent authority of the host Member State and parent entities shall report for themselves to the competent authority of their home Member State. |
8. | Article 15(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 specify that those paragraphs apply to credit transfers and instant credit transfers, while excluding transactions that are referred to in Article 1(2) of that Regulation. Furthermore, Article 15(2) of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 provides that the development of charges for national and cross-border credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro and in the national currency of the Member States whose currency is not the euro are also to be evaluated by the European Commission. National and cross-border credit transfers are defined in Article 2, points (26) and (27) of that Regulation. In light of this, to determine whether a credit transfer is under the scope of this Regulation, both the credit transfer currency (the credit transfer is in euro or in the national currency of the Member States whose currency is not the euro) and the PSP location (the payer's and the payee's PSPs of the credit transfer are located in the Union) are to be considered. |
9. | Charges for transfers denominated in euro shall always be reported in euro, even if they were levied in another currency. |
10. | Charges for transfers denominated in Member States’ national currencies other than euro shall be reported in that national currency, even where they were levied in a different currency. In such cases, where charges are converted into euro or into other national currencies, data shall be converted using the ECB reference exchange rate or exchange rates applied for those transactions, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 of the European Central Bank (2). |
11. | The currency conversion fee shall be excluded from reporting. |
12. | PSPs shall report the six sets of templates in this Annex separately for each reference period. |
TEMPLATE S 01.01: TOTAL NUMBER AND TOTAL VALUE OF CREDIT TRANSFERS, AND OF INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS
General remarks
13. | PSPs shall complete Template S 01.01 with the number and value of sent credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro for PSPs located in euro Member States, and in national currency other than euro for PSPs located in non-euro Member States. The number and value of credit transfers and instant credit transfers shall include the number of such transfers sent by each PSP in the reference period, with breakdowns by: For the breakdowns referred to in points (a), (b) and (c), the sum of the reported data points shall add up to the total number or value of reported credit transfers. For the breakdown referred to in point (d), in the credit transfers "initiated electronically via online banking’, PSPs shall include credit transfers initiated online on a single payment basis and credit transfers initiated in a file/batch. Credit transfers initiated in a file/batch are electronically initiated credit transfers that are part of a group of credit transfers jointly initiated by the payer via a dedicated line. Each credit transfer contained in a batch shall be counted as a separate credit transfer when reporting the number of transactions. transfers that are free of charge and those that are not free of charge; type of customer initiating the credit transfer; national or cross-border nature of the credit transfer; payment initiation method used. |
14. | PSPs shall indicate in Template S 01.01 the number and value of received credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro for PSPs located in euro Member States, and in national currency other than euro for PSPs located in non-euro Member States. The number and value of credit transfers and instant credit transfers shall indicate the number of transfers received by each PSP in the reference period, with a breakdown by whether the transfer is free of charge or not. |
15. | Information in this template shall be reported at a total level. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 01.01
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TEMPLATE S 01.02: TOTAL NUMBER AND TOTAL VALUE OF CREDIT TRANSFERS, AND OF INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS (only for PSPs in non-euro Member States)
16. | PSPs shall complete Template S 01.02 by including the number and value of sent and received credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro only for PSPs located in non-euro Member States, without further breakdowns. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 01.02
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TEMPLATE S 02.01: CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS
General remarks
17. | PSPs shall complete Template S 02.01 by including information on the charges levied by PSPs on PSUs for sent credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro for PSPs located in euro Member States, and in national currency other than euro levied by PSPs located in non-euro Member States, in the reference period. The value of charges for sent credit transfers and instant credit transfers in the reference period shall include breakdowns by: national or cross-border nature of the credit transfer; type of customer initiating the credit transfer; payment initiation method. |
18. | For the breakdowns referred to in points (a) and (b), the sum of the reported data points shall add up to the total value of charges for the reported credit transfers. |
19. | PSPs shall also include in Template S 02.01 information on the charges levied by PSPs on PSUs for received credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro for PSPs located in euro Member States, and in national currency other than euro for PSPs located in non-euro Member States, with no further breakdowns. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 02.01
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TEMPLATE S 02.02: CHARGES FOR CREDIT TRANSFERS AND INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS (only for PSPs in non-euro Member States)
20. | PSPs shall complete Template S 02.02 by including information on the charges for sent and received credit transfers and instant credit transfers in euro only for PSPs located in non-euro Member States, without further breakdowns. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 02.02
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TEMPLATE S 03.00: TOTAL NUMBER OF PAYMENT ACCOUNTS, AND TOTAL CHARGES FOR PAYMENT ACCOUNTS (NATIONAL CURRENCY)
General remarks
21. | Template S 03.00 shall include information on the number of payment accounts and total charges for such accounts in the reference period. |
22. | Values of charges shall be reported in euro for PSPs located in euro Member States and in national currency other than euro for non-euro Member States. Where charges were applied in a different currency than the one used for reporting in this template, the value of such charges shall be converted into euro or into other national currencies, using the ECB reference exchange rate or exchange rates applied for those transactions, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 03.00
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TEMPLATE S 04.00: NUMBER OF REJECTED INSTANT CREDIT TRANSFERS
General remarks
23. | PSPs shall complete Template S 04.00 by including information on the number of rejected instant credit transfers due to the application of the targeted financial restrictive measures in the reference period. |
24. | The aim of this reporting is to verify the number of instances where an instant credit transfer from or to an entity subject to targeted financial restrictive measures (TFRM) was not allowed to go through, irrespective of the mechanism used. That could derive from the fact that the payer’s or the payee’s PSP has stopped the execution of an initiated transaction, or the payer’s PSP has frozen funds before an instant credit transfer was initiated, or the payee’s PSP has frozen funds after the instant credit transfer has arrived at an account. |
25. | The number of rejected instant credit transfers shall include both transfers within the same PSP and transfers between different PSPs. Instructions concerning specific positions of Template S 04.00
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(1) Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 establishing technical and business requirements for credit transfers and direct debits in euro and amending Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 (OJ L 94, 30/03/2012, p. 22, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/260/oj).
(2) Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 of the European Central Bank of 28 November 2013 on payments statistics (ECB/2013/43), (OJ L 352, 24/12/2013, p. 18, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1409/oj).
(3) Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to payment accounts with basic features (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 214, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/92/oj).