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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9585
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin

Ministers do not set date for completion of move to SEPA system

Brussels, 22/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - European finance ministers have adopted, without amendment, the draft conclusions on the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) that was put to them on Tuesday 22 January (see EUROPE 9582). Some spoke of setting a date for completing the move from national payment systems to the SEPA system, to minimise the costs of double handling of payments. Italy would like a date set, with Italian Finance Minister Tomas Padoa-Schioppa saying that setting a date should be...

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