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1. Ħarsa ġenerali

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1.   This Regulation lays down uniform technical and business requirements for card-based payment transactions carried out within the Union, where both the payer's payment service provider and the payee's payment service provider are located therein.
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2.   This Regulation does not apply to services based on specific payment instruments that can be used only in a limited way, that meet one of the following conditions:

(a)

instruments allowing the holder to acquire goods or services only in the premises of the issuer or within a limited network of service providers under direct commercial agreement with a professional issuer;

(b)

instruments which can be used only to acquire a very limited range of goods or services;

(c)

instruments valid only in a single Member State provided at the request of an undertaking or a public sector entity and regulated by a national or regional public authority for specific social or tax purposes to acquire specific goods or services from suppliers having a commercial agreement with the issuer.
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3.   Chapter II does not apply to the following:

(a)

transactions with commercial cards;

(b)

cash withdrawals at automatic teller machines or at the counter of a payment service provider; and

(c)

transactions with payment cards issued by three party payment card schemes.
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4.   Article 7 does not apply to three party payment card schemes.
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5.   When a three party payment card scheme licenses other payment service providers for the issuance of card-based payment instruments or the acquiring of card-based payment transactions, or both, or issues card-based payment instruments with a co-branding partner or through an agent, it is considered to be a four party payment card scheme. However, until 9 December 2018 in relation to domestic payment transactions, such a three party payment card scheme may be exempted from the obligations under Chapter II, provided that the card-based payment transactions made in a Member State under such a three party payment card scheme do not exceed on a yearly basis 3 % of the value of all card-based payment transactions made in that Member State.

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