Normative Instruction BCB No. 698 of January 6, 2026

Resolution No. 222

NORMATIVE INSTRUCTION BCB NO. 698, OF JANUARY 6, 2026

Amends the Normative Instruction BCB No. 108, of May 19, 2021, which establishes procedures for the withdrawal from circulation of national banknotes and metal coins considered counterfeit or of dubious legitimacy.

The Head of the Circulating Media Department (Mecir), acting in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Art. 23, I, letter "a", of the Internal Regulations of the Central Bank of Brazil, published in the annex to Resolution BCB No. 340, of September 29, 2023, and based on Art. 8 of Resolution BCB No. 223, of March 30, 2022,

R E S O L V E S:

Art. 1. Articles 2, 4, and 9 of Normative Instruction BCB No. 108, of May 19, 2021, shall enter into force with the following wording:

“Art. 2. ...................................................................................................................................

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VIII - forward, for examination, the national banknotes and metal coins referred to in the caput, accompanied by the Forwarding Receipt (RE) document, in duplicate, according to the model contained in Annex 1 of this IN, to the following representations of Mecir, according to the federative unit where the retention occurred, namely:

COMPONENT OF MECIR WHERE THE DELIVERY OF NATIONAL BANKNOTES AND COINS CONSIDERED COUNTERFEIT OR OF DUBIOUS LEGITIMITY RETAINED BY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD BE MADE	FEDERATIVE UNIT WHERE THE RETENTION OF NATIONAL BANKNOTES AND COINS CONSIDERED COUNTERFEIT OR OF DUBIOUS LEGITIMITY OCCURRED
Rio de Janeiro	Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Federal District, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe, and Tocantins.
São Paulo	Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo.

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(NR)

“Art. 4. Financial institutions must record the shipment number and the order number of each item, handwritten, on each banknote, stamping it with the expression “SUSPECT OF COUNTERFEITING”, according to the stamp model and delimited areas of the banknote defined in Annex 2 of this Normative Instruction.

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(NR)

“Art. 9. ...................................................................................................................................

Rio de Janeiro: ditec.mecir@bcb.gov.br
(legitimacy examination)

Rio de Janeiro: susan.dites.mecir@bcb.gov.br (valuation and anti-theft)

São Paulo: sumof2.sp@bcb.gov.br.” (NR)

Art. 2. Financial institutions shall have 6 (six) months, counting from the date of entry into force of this Normative Instruction BCB, to adapt their logistical structure aiming at the delivery of national banknotes and metal coins suspected of illegitimacy to the locations described in Art. 2, item VIII.

Art. 3. This Normative Instruction shall enter into force on the date of its publication.

FÁBIO
BOLLMANN

NOTE

By virtue of Art. 24 of Decree No. 10.411, of June 30, 2020, the issuance of normative acts by federal administration bodies from October 14, 2021, including this Central Bank, must be preceded by a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA).

However, as provided in Art. 4, II and III, of that Decree, the RIA may be waived in cases of normative acts intended to regulate rights or obligations defined in a hierarchically superior norm that does not allow, technically or legally, different regulatory alternatives, and of normative acts of low impact. In this way, the Normative Instruction in question is exempt from the RIA.