2015-09-14
The Governor of the National Bank of Serbia issued this Decision to mandate payment service providers and e-money issuers to submit accurate statistical data regarding payment operations and instruments. The regulation specifies the exact content, deadlines, and electronic submission methods for reporting metrics such as user counts, card volumes, transaction values, and device networks. These quarterly reports are required to begin with the first quarter of 2016 and serve to monitor the development of the country's payment systems.
RS Official Gazette, No 57/2015, /corr. 59/2015 Pursuant to Article 176, paragraph 4 of the Law on Payment Services (RS Official Gazette, No 139/2014), Article 18, paragraph 1, item 3) and Article 68, paragraph 2 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 and 40/2015 – Constitutional Court decision), Governor of the National Bank of Serbia issues DECISION ON THE CONTENT, DEADLINES AND METHOD OF SUBMISSION OF DATA BY PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS TO THE NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA
2 12) Current account means the account referred to in Article 70 of the Law; 13) Other payment account means а) a payment account other than a current account, maintained by a bank for one or several payment service users and used for the execution of payment transactions based on a framework contract, without special limitations, and b) a payment account within the meaning of Article 2, paragraph 1, item 3) of the Law, maintained with a public postal operator, e-money institution and payment institution; 14) Card is a means enabling its holder to execute a payment transaction (placement, withdrawal and transfer) either through any acceptance device or at a distance; it may have, in accordance with the issuance agreement, one or several functions; 15) Card with a cash function means a card enabling its holder only to place and/or withdraw cash at automated teller machines (ATM); 16) Card with a payment function means a card, except for a card with an e-money function, with at least one of the following functions: a debit function, delayed debit function or credit card function; 17) Debit card means a card enabling its holder to pay for goods and services, and to withdraw cash up to the level of balances in his account, which also includes authorised overdraft; 18) Card with a delayed debit function means a card enabling its holder to pay for goods and services and withdraw cash up to a specific (agreed) limit. The balance of this account is then settled subsequently in full at the end of a predefined period, i.e. on the agreed debit date; 19) Credit card means a card enabling its holder to purchase goods and services and withdraw cash up to a prearranged credit limit. The credit granted may be either settled in full by the end of a specified period or is automatically divided into an agreed number of instalments under a pre-agreed model; 20) Card with a debit and/or delayed debit function means a card where it is not possible to differentiate whether a card, according to the agreement between the card issuer and holder, has a debit or delayed debit card function; 21) Card with a credit and/or delayed debit function means a card where it is not possible to differentiate whether a card, according to the agreement between the card issuer and holder, has a credit or delayed debit card function; 22) Card with an e-money function means a card which enables its holder to execute an e-money payment transaction; 23) Card on which e-money can be stored directly means a card with an e-money function, which enables e-money transfer from the card to the e-money recipient; 24) Card which gives access to e-money stored on e-money accounts means a card with an e-money function which gives access to server-based emoney; 25) Card with a combined debit, cash and e-money function means a card with all three functions; 26) АТМ means an electromechanical device enabling card holders to place
3 and/or withdraw cash and/or use other services (e.g. transfer of funds, statement of account etc); 27) ATM with a credit transfer function means an ATM enabling credit transfer using a card, regardless of whether there is another function as well; 28) POS terminal means a device installed at a point of sale or teller of a payment service provider, which enables the use of cards, whereas information on payment transactions is recorded electronically (EFTPOS); 29) E-money card terminal means a device installed at a point of sale or teller of the payment service provider which, in addition to the EFTPOS terminal function, enables e-money transfer to the card with an e-money function and vice versa, or which enables the holder of e-money in the card with an e-money function to effect payment to the payee; 30) E-money card loading and unloading terminal means a device which enables e-money transfer to the card with an e-money function and vice versa; 31) E-money card accepting terminal means a device which enables a holder of e-money in the card with an e-money function to effect transfer of emoney to the payee; 32) E-money payment transaction means e-money transfer from the emoney holder to the e-money recipient, regardless of whether such transaction is performed with a card with an e-money function or from the e-money account; 33) Payment transaction using a card on which e-money can be stored directly means e-money transfer to the payee, effected with this card through the e-money card accepting terminal; 34) Payment transaction with e-money account means a payment transaction where e-money is transferred from the payer’s e-money account to the payee’s account, regardless of whether the card used enables access to emoney stored on the e-money account; 35) Payment transaction of e-money loading/unloading means a transaction of e-money transfer from the e-money issuer to the card on which emoney can be stored directly and vice versa, performed through the e-money card loading and unloading terminal; 36) Unauthorised payment transaction using a card means a payment transaction effected by using lost or stolen cards, or abused data (skimming), and/or a payment transaction to whose execution the card holder did not give his consent in the form and in the manner determined by the agreement between the card issuer and holder; 37) Credit transfer means the payment service referred to in Article 4, paragraph 2 of the Law; 38) Direct debit means the payment service referred to in Article 4, paragraph 3 of the Law, which also includes invoices – specifications of orders submitted by the creditor to the payer’s payment service provider (most often, the amount is not fixed); 39) Standing order means an instruction that the payer gives to its payment service provider for periodical execution of one or more payment transactions
4 (most often in the fixed amount); a standing order is not an instruction given by the payee; 40) Money remittance means the payment service referred to in Article 4, paragraph 1, item 6) of the Law; 41) Payment transaction based on a promissory note means the payment transaction referred to in Article 66, paragraph 1 of the Law. 4. Payment service providers must submit to the National Bank of Serbia the following, accurate and complete data:
5 The data referred to in paragraph 1 of this Section refer to payment transactions executed in dinars in the Republic of Serbia, unless indicated otherwise in the Annexes referred to in that paragraph. 5. The data referred to in Section 4 of this Decision shall be submitted by payment service providers in accordance with the NBS instruction on electronic data submission. 6. Payment service providers shall submit the data referred to in Section 4 of this Decision in quarterly dynamics as follows: