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A costly exercise… upgrading barriers and payment machines would be a major expense to operators
Parking – an exemption
An important step has been taken in helping parking operators decide what equipment they can use to receive payment in their car parks. Tis follows a decision taken by a task group at the European Parking Association (EPA), which ruled that payments by credit and debit cards –under a certain value – do not need chip and pin facilities. Tis ruling will save many
parking operators in the UK the cost of converting their existing machinery or buying new equipment. Te process leading to
the decision was reported in Parking Trend International and extracts from the article are reproduced here. Te international Europay,
MasterCard and Visa (EMV) consortium decided to make debit and credit cards safer, and ensure every transaction would be verified by pin code. To this
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end, an EPA task group was established, and held a series of meetings. Te results, which are valid for parking operations all over Europe, are published here. Te EMV consortium
decided that, in the interests of security, every transaction using cards should be online and verified by a pin code. Restaurants and shops were
quick to adapt, with the parking industry following later. As a result, parking operators didn’t know what equipment to buy and sales people didn’t know what to sell. An EPA task group was
established in late 2008 and had its first meeting in Malmö, Sweden, in January 2009. Te group consists of parking experts from the major European parking merchants and parking operators. It was chaired by the chief
executives from Norpark and Svepark, the Norwegian and Swedish parking associations.
By autumn 2009 the
group had achieved the following results, valid for parking across Europe from 1
January 2010: l Te bank industry is now aware of the parking industry
and its situation; l All parking ticket machines are considered to be located in unattended environments. Tis means that parking transactions with debit and credit cards from MasterCard up to €100 and from Visa up to €50 can be done via parking equipment without a pin pad. Visa may raise the level to €100 following
a test period; l With barrier and other pay- on-exit systems, transactions can be made without the need
for a pin code; l Where parking for amounts surpassing €100 (MasterCard) and €50 (Visa) is possible, a pin
pad must be installed; l Transactions with MasterCard (€100) and Visa
(€50) must always be followed
by a pin code; and l Non parking Cat B/level 2 transactions have a €20 level for non-pin transactions. Nick Lester, president of the
EPA said: ‘Te working group on chip-and-pin has achieved a major win for the parking industry across Europe. ‘Without this agreement
operators would not only have had to re-equip all their barriers and payment machines but might also have had to rebuild some entrances and exits to provide more lanes, to take account of the extra time that public entry would have taken to enter pin-codes. ‘Tis is precisely the type of
issue that the EPA has been set up to deal with.’
CREDITS: Much of this information is taken from Parking Trend International issue no1-2010. With thanks to Sten Ake Hakansson, Svepark and Egil Ostvik, Norpark.
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