Value date and availability of funds
Article 87
1. Member States shall ensure that the credit value date for the payee’s payment account is no later than the business day on which the amount of the payment transaction is credited to the payee’s payment service provider’s account. 2. The payment service provider of the payee shall ensure that the amount of the payment transaction is at the payee’s disposal immediately after that amount is credited to the payee’s payment service provider’s account where, on the part of the payee’s payment service provider, there is: (a) no currency conversion; or (b) a currency conversion between the euro and a Member State currency or between two Member State currencies. The obligation laid down in this paragraph shall also apply to payments within one payment service provider. 3. Member States shall ensure that the debit value date for the payer’s payment account is no earlier than the time at which the amount of the payment transaction is debited to that payment account.