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Brussels to Put Out Digital Euro Law Shortly, ECB’s Lagarde Says

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Brussels to Put Out Digital Euro Law Shortly, ECB’s Lagarde Says


The European Commission is going to present a legislative proposal for a digital euro in the near future, President of European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has indicated. EU legislators are expected to define the new currency’s legal tender status and determine its privacy features. EU Commission to Propose Legislation for Eurozone’s Digital Currency


Authorities in the euro area have already made good progress in exploring the rationale and the potential benefits and risks of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) noted during a conference devoted to the digital version of the common currency.


In a video message, Christine Lagarde said that the focus of their efforts is now shifting to the concrete design of the digital euro and its embedding into a legal framework. This is an area where EU legislators will play an important role, the top executive stressed and revealed: I’m therefore very much looking forward to the legislative proposal for establishing a digital euro which the European Commission will propose shortly.


The executive body in Brussels is one of the main participants in the European Union’s complex legislative process, along with the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, and is responsible for suggesting new laws.


In her statements, published by the ECB, Lagarde pointed out that the co-legislators must now define the balance between competing public objectives. She marked two aspects in particular — privacy and the digital euro’s legal tender status. New Legislation to Determine Privacy Features and Legal Tender Status for Digital Euro


Reminding that 43% of the respondents in the public consultation on the digital euro ranked privacy as the most important feature of the upcoming CBDC, the president of the eurozone’s monetary authority acknowledged that if the coin is to be attractive, it needs to meet people’s expectations in that respect.


“We should at least provide a level of privacy equal to that of current electronic payment solutions,” Christine Lagarde emphasized while excluding full anonymity, such as offered by cash, citing anti-money laundering rules and the need to limit the use of the digital euro for investment. However, she did not rule out greater privacy for low-value, low-risk, and offline payments.


Elaborating on the other aspect that she highlighted, Lagarde insisted that it is a constitutional feature of cash, as central bank money, to be legal tender and made it clear that the same principle should apply to the digital version of the euro, allowing citizens to use it to pay anywhere. This should include digital payments in physical stores, e-commerce, and peer-to-peer payments, the head of the ECB detailed.


In her address, Christine Lagarde also emphasized the importance of the upcoming Markets in Crypto Assets legislation (MiCA) and listed the emergence of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether among the major developments leading to a potentially disruptive transformation of the traditional model of payments. Tags in this story CBDC, Christine Lagarde, Conference, Digital Currency, digital euro, ECB, EU, European Central Bank, european commission, Lagarde, legal framework, Legislation, legislative proposal, President


Do you expect the EU Commission to put forward draft legislation for the digital euro soon? Tell us in the comments section below. Lubomir Tassev


Lubomir Tassev is a journalist from tech-savvy Eastern Europe who likes Hitchens’s quote: “Being a writer is what I am, rather than what I do.” Besides crypto, blockchain and fintech, international politics and economics are two other sources of inspiration. Goldman Sachs Launches Data Service to Help Investors Analyze Crypto Markets FINANCE | 4 days ago Bank of Thailand Needs More Time to Complete and Launch Retail Digital Currency FINANCE | Oct 31, 2022


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