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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8545

19 September 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial services
Deadlines for financial transfers is 4 days and charges are 18% on average in EFTA countries, following transposition of direction on cross-border payments

Brussels, 18/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to a study made public by the EFTA monitoring authority, the three EFTA countries of the European Economic Area (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) have correctly introduced into their legislation the European directive on cross-border payments. It is, however, not always applied well due to "lack of control" sometimes.

The study points out that 1 in 645 transfers does not get to the beneficiary's account (98.4% success rate, as opposed to...

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