2019-01-14
The Governor of the National Bank of Serbia issued this Decision to mandate payment service providers to submit data on fees for representative services and cash pay-ins. Providers must report these fees electronically to the National Bank of Serbia prior to any changes, with initial submissions required by March 8, 2019. The National Bank of Serbia is responsible for publishing this comparable fee data on its official website to ensure transparency for payment service users.
RS Official Gazette, No 99/2018 Pursuant to Article 73h, paragraph 2 of the Law on Payment Services (RS Official Gazette Nos 139/2014 and 44/2018) and Article 18, paragraph 1, item 3) of the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (RS Official Gazette, Nos 72/2003, 55/2004, 85/2005 – other law, 44/2010, 76/2012, 106/2012, 14/2015, 40/2015 ‒ CC decision and 44/2018), the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia hereby issues this DECISION ON THE CONTENTS AND MANNER OF SUBMITTING AND PUBLISHING DATA ON FEES CHARGED TO PAYMENT SERVICE USERS BY PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS
2 the payee’s payment account held with the same or other payment service provider in the Republic of Serbia. If the credit transfer service from paragraph 1 of this Section is initiated by an entrepreneur or a legal entity, the payment service provider shall submit only the data on fees for the service of cash pay-in to the account of that entrepreneur or legal person held with another payment service provider (e.g. depositing daily takings on the payment account held with another payment service provider). The payment service provider shall submit data on fees for the service of cash pay-ins to another person’s payment account broken down at least according to whether the payee’s payment account is held with the same payment service provider (internal transfer) or with another payment service provider (external transfer). If it charges various fees according to whether the payee is a consumer or an entrepreneur and/or a legal person, or according to the amount of the transaction – the payment service provider shall disclose those fees separately as well. The payment service provider shall also disclose separately the fee for the service of cash pay-in to another person’s payment account when the order of the payment service user is executed urgently, i.e. as an instant credit transfer. 6. The payment service provider shall submit to the NBS data referred to in Section 3 of this Decision in accordance with the NBS guidelines governing the electronic submission of these data, published on the NBS website. The payment service provider shall be responsible for the accuracy of the submitted data, and the NBS shall be responsible for posting data on its website identical to those provided by the payment service provider. 7. The payment service provider shall submit data from Section 3 of this Decision to the NBS prior to any change, no later than by the end of the day preceding the day such change is implemented, while the NBS shall publish these data on its website. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Section, if the change of data from Section 3 of this Decision pertains to the beginning of the provision of the service from that Section which the payment service provider did not provide until then, the payment service provider shall first submit those data to the NBS at least 30 days before the scheduled beginning of the provision of that service.
3 8. The NBS shall publish on its website comparable data from Section 3 of this Decision by payment service provider, stating the date of the latest change. 9. The payment service provider shall first submit data from Section 3 of this Decision to the NBS by 8 March 2019 at the latest. 10. This Decision shall enter into force on the eighth day following its publication in the RS Official Gazette and shall apply as of 17 March 2019. D. No 18 G o v e r n o r 14 December 2018 of the National Bank of Serbia B e l g r a d e Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković