TITLE IIOFFENCES

Article 4Offences related to the fraudulent use of corporeal non-cash payment instruments

Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, when committed intentionally, the following conduct is punishable as a criminal offence:

  1. (a)

    the theft or other unlawful appropriation of a corporeal non-cash payment instrument;

  2. (b)

    the fraudulent counterfeiting or falsification of a corporeal non-cash payment instrument;

  3. (c)

    the possession of a stolen or otherwise unlawfully appropriated, or of a counterfeit or falsified corporeal non-cash payment instrument for fraudulent use;

  4. (d)

    the procurement for oneself or another, including the receipt, appropriation, purchase, transfer, import, export, sale, transport or distribution of a stolen, counterfeit or falsified corporeal non-cash payment instrument for fraudulent use.