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Directive 2009/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the… Article 2

Directive 2009/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the… Article 2

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Article 2

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: 1. ‘electronic money institution’ means a legal person that has been granted authorisation under Title II to issue electronic money; 2. ‘electronic money’ means electronically, including magnetically, stored monetary value as represented by a claim on the issuer which is issued on receipt of funds for the purpose of making payment transactions as defined in point 5 of Article 4 of Directive 2007/64/EC, and which is accepted by a natural or legal person other than the electronic money issuer; 3. ‘electronic money issuer’ means entities referred to in Article 1(1), institutions benefiting from the waiver under Article 1(3) and legal persons benefiting from a waiver under Article 9; 4. ‘average outstanding electronic money’ means the average total amount of financial liabilities related to electronic money in issue at the end of each calendar day over the preceding six calendar months, calculated on the first calendar day of each calendar month and applied for that calendar month.

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