Credit institutions, La Poste, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and service providers processing euro banknotes and coins in their name and on their behalf, as well as bureaux de change, shall promptly hand over to the Banque de France or the public institution La Monnaie de Paris, respectively, euro banknotes and coins which they have sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit.
To this end, they shall draw up internal written rules, the implementation of which they shall monitor, setting out the procedures for the prompt delivery to the Banque de France and the public establishment La Monnaie de Paris of the notes and coins referred to in the previous paragraph. These procedures take into account the recommendations made by the Comité français d’organisation et de normalisation bancaire.
The Banque de France and the public institution La Monnaie de Paris shall authenticate the notes and coins delivered to them pursuant to the first paragraph. They withhold monetary signs that they recognise as counterfeit or falsified.