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Supervisors may, directly or in cooperation with other authorities in that Member State, exempt obliged entities from applying, in full or in part, the customer due diligence measures referred to in Article 20(1), points (a), (b) and (c), with respect to electronic money on the basis of the proven low risk posed by the nature of the product, where all of the following risk-mitigating conditions are met: (a) the payment instrument is not reloadable, and the amount stored electronically does not exceed EUR 150 or the equivalent in national currency; (b) the payment instrument is used exclusively to purchase goods or services provided by the issuer, or within a network of service providers; (c) the payment instrument is not linked to a payment account and it does not permit any stored amount to be exchanged for cash or for crypto-assets; (d) the issuer carries out sufficient monitoring of the transactions or business relationship to enable the detection of unusual or suspicious transactions.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04