Press Release: Electronic payments: Commission seeks views on single European telephone number to report lost and stolen cards

The European Commission has launched a public on-line consultation on the possible establishment of an EU-wide system for cancelling lost and stolen credit and payment cards ('Card Stop Europe'). Such a service would be based on a single easy-to-remember telephone number. Comments are invited before 30 April 2004.

ESO: Background information: Brussels may rule on electronic payments http://www.europeansources.info/record/brussels-may-rule-on-electronic-payments/

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/internal_market/payments/fraud/cardstopeurope/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/internal_market/payments/fraud/cardstopeurope/index_en.htm

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