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1. Charges levied by a payment service provider on a payment service user in respect of cross-border payments in euro shall be the same as the charges levied by that payment service provider for corresponding national payments of the same value in the national currency of the Member State in which the payment service provider of the payment service user is located.

2. Charges levied by a payment service provider on a payment service user in respect of cross-border payments in the national currency of a Member State that has notified its decision to extend the application of this Regulation to its national currency in accordance with Article 13 shall be the same as the charges levied by that payment service provider on payment service users for corresponding national payments of the same value and in the same currency.

3. When assessing, for the purpose of complying with paragraph 1, the level of charges for a cross-border payment, a payment service provider shall identify the corresponding national payment. The competent authorities shall issue guidelines to identify corresponding national payments where they consider it necessary to do so. The competent authorities shall actively cooperate within the Payments Committee established by Article 85(1) of Directive 2007/64/EC, to ensure the consistency of guidelines for corresponding national payments.

4. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to currency conversion charges.

5. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply where Article 5b(1) of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council () would require a payment service provider located in a Member State that does not have the euro as its currency, with respect to an instant credit transfer, to levy a charge which would be lower than the charge which would be levied, with respect to the same instant credit transfer, if paragraph 1 of this Article were to be applied.

For the purposes of the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the term ‘instant credit transfer’ means an instant credit transfer as defined in Article 2, point (1a), of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012, that is in euro and cross-border.