62021CJ0772_SUM
Case C‑772/21
‘Brink’s Lithuania’ UAB
v
Lietuvos bankas
(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas)
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 20 April 2023
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the euro against counterfeiting – Regulation (EC) No 1338/2001 – Article 6(1) – Payment service providers engaged in the processing of banknotes and their distribution to the public – Decision ECB/2010/14 – Article 6(2) – Detection of unfit euro banknotes – Automated fitness checking of banknotes – Minimum standards published on the website of the European Central Bank (ECB) and amended from time to time – Personal scope – Extent of cash handlers’ obligations – Binding force – Principle of legal certainty)
Economic and monetary policy – Monetary policy – Protection of the euro against counterfeiting – Authenticity and fitness checking of euro banknotes – Detection of unfit banknotes – European Central Bank minimum standards for automated fitness checking of banknotes – Application of those standards exclusively to manufacturers of banknote handling machines
(Council Regulation No 1338/2001, Art. 6(1); European Central Bank Decision 2010/14, as amended by Decision 2012/19, Arts 3(1), 6(2), and 10(1) and (3))
(see paragraphs 44, 46, 47, 49-54, operative part 1)
Economic and monetary policy – Monetary policy – Protection of the euro against counterfeiting – Authenticity and fitness checking of euro banknotes – Detection of unfit banknotes – European Central Bank minimum standards for automated fitness checking of banknotes – Prohibition on Member States requiring cash handlers to comply with those minimum standards
(Arts 3(1)(c) and 133 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1338/2001; European Central Bank Decision 2010/14, as amended by Decision 2012/19, Arts 3(5) and 6(2) and (3))
(see paragraphs 56-59, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.