The scheme participation fee is calculated for each Payment Service Provider by taking into account the number of schemes to which they adhere. The fees paid by Payment Service Providers may evolve every year because they depend on the number of schemes, the number of scheme participants and the costs borne by the European Payments Council in relation to the management of the schemes.
Payment Service Providers can be invoiced either individually or at a group level when they are part of a declared ‘group’ of Payment Service Providers as defined in the Regulation () No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on over-the-counter derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories. In the latter situation, the fees are due from the parent undertaking (which has a dominant influence on one or more Payment Service Providers) or the central control body of the group (to which scheme participants are affiliated and by which they are supervised). Interested groups are invited to use the standard template to declare their composition to the European Payments Council by providing a list of all member scheme participants.
Individual scheme participant – not part of a declared group:
|
scheme |
Core scheme |
B2B scheme |
All three schemes |
|
EUR 213 |
EUR 314 |
EUR 406 |
EUR 933 |
Declared group:
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Local may in some cases be due on the above amounts.
Each scheme participant (or the parent undertaking in the case of a group of scheme participants) receives its yearly fee invoice from the European Payments Council during the first quarter of the year. The invoice must be paid by an electronic Single Euro Payments Area instrument. Direct debit ( Core) is preferred as it automates the payment and avoids the suspension of scheme participants from the EPC SEPA Register of Participants, in the event that they miss the payment deadline.
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