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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidance on the interpretation and application of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer rights · European Union

Cash payment in foreign currency is also a ‘means of payment’ within the meaning of Article 19. Therefore, a trader should not use currency conversion as a method of actually imposing payment surcharges on the consumer that are not justified by the actual costs incurred in offering the option of paying in foreign cash (in particular, the costs borne by the trader to convert the cash received).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.