A euro area Member State may oblige its administration to accept cash payments, but it may also restrict this possibility of payment on public interest grounds, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday 26 January (cases C-422 & 423/19) (see EUROPE B12570A28).
Two German citizens are challenging in court the fact that the broadcasting organisation of the Land of Hessen refuses payment of the licence fee in cash. According to them, the German Central Bank Act (BBankG), the...