PREVENTION OF FRAUD AND COUNTERFEITING

Entities that handle cash are obliged to guarantee the authenticity of the notes and coins that they intend to put back into circulation and to make sure they have been checked for any possible counterfeiting.

The entities operating in the financial system are also obliged to withdraw from circulation all the euro notes and coins received and which are known —or for which there are sufficient reasons to believe— to be counterfeited, and to immediately hand these over to the Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi de Monedes (CNAM) or to the Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi (CNA). Other entities and the general public must hand such notes over to the Oficina Central Nacional (OCN).

To facilitate the control of authentication of the euro notes and coins in circulation, the transport of alleged counterfeits is allowed between the competent national authorities, as well as the institutions and bodies of the European Union and Andorra.