Spokesman Jaume Duch Guillot said the
directive and related regulation on interchange fees, which are
currently under discussion in the Parliament's economic and monetary
affairs committee, will be passed on to the next Parliament.
“We have just concluded the stage of tabling amendments to the report,” Duch Guillot explained, saying this left too little time for adopting the laws before the Parliament's last plenary session in April.
“You will have to wait for the election in May and the establishment of new members before the proposal is discussed and voted on in plenary. The debate on the issue could then resume in conjunction with the Italian Presidency,” Duch Guillot added.
The Payment Services Directive (PSD) aims to create a true European market for payments that would ideally lower the costs for both consumers and payment institutions of carrying out payments.
Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba Bidegain (European People's Party), who is in charge of steering the Parliament's position on the proposal, had tabled a first report in November, questioning the European Commission's proposed reduction of interchange fees on debit and credit card transactions.
Proposals to update the PSD, which dates back to 2007, were published by the Commission in July 2013. At the same time the Commission published a draft regulation on multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) levied when payments are made cross-border or within member states.
The goal is to update the rules on payment services in light of the changes occurring in recent years, especially with regards to the growing use of online payments.
One of the key challenges of the proposal is not regulatory but cultural, with widely varying payment practices across EU member states, which sometimes reflect different national traditions and behaviours.
The PSD is often mentioned in the same breath as the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) but the two are in fact separate, because SEPA began as a voluntary initiative of the European banking industry. The industry created a consortium, the European Payments Council, to define how SEPA would work in practice.
“We have just concluded the stage of tabling amendments to the report,” Duch Guillot explained, saying this left too little time for adopting the laws before the Parliament's last plenary session in April.
“You will have to wait for the election in May and the establishment of new members before the proposal is discussed and voted on in plenary. The debate on the issue could then resume in conjunction with the Italian Presidency,” Duch Guillot added.
The Payment Services Directive (PSD) aims to create a true European market for payments that would ideally lower the costs for both consumers and payment institutions of carrying out payments.
Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba Bidegain (European People's Party), who is in charge of steering the Parliament's position on the proposal, had tabled a first report in November, questioning the European Commission's proposed reduction of interchange fees on debit and credit card transactions.
Proposals to update the PSD, which dates back to 2007, were published by the Commission in July 2013. At the same time the Commission published a draft regulation on multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) levied when payments are made cross-border or within member states.
The goal is to update the rules on payment services in light of the changes occurring in recent years, especially with regards to the growing use of online payments.
One of the key challenges of the proposal is not regulatory but cultural, with widely varying payment practices across EU member states, which sometimes reflect different national traditions and behaviours.
The PSD is often mentioned in the same breath as the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) but the two are in fact separate, because SEPA began as a voluntary initiative of the European banking industry. The industry created a consortium, the European Payments Council, to define how SEPA would work in practice.
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