23/04/24 (Agence Europe) – At the plenary session of the European Parliament on Tuesday 23 April, MEPs voted in favour of revising the Payment Services Regulation (see EUROPE 13350/23) (511 votes in favour, 22 against, 75 abstentions) and the Directive on Payment and Electronic Money Services in the Internal Market (484 votes in favour, 8 against, 118 abstentions). In so doing, they are speaking out in favour of greater, harmonised protection for users of these services in the EU, and against fraud and misuse of data. The issue of the ‘burden of proof’ had been at the heart of the negotiations between the political groups (see EUROPE 13341/6). “We are making sure that online platforms (such as Meta or Google) are jointly responsible for payment fraud committed through them” said the rapporteur, Marek Belka (S&D, Polish), in a statement on Tuesday. (BD)