COMs are cash dispensers which check euro banknotes for authenticity and fitness before dispensing them to customers. COMs use euro banknotes loaded into them by cash handlers or other automated systems (e.g. vending machines)

61. Stresses that tax havens and off-shore centres encourage tax avoidance strategies (for instance, through transfer mispricing), tax evasion and illicit capital flight; underlines, in particular, that tax fraud in developing countries leads to an annual loss of tax revenue corresponding to 10 times the amount of injected development aid from developed countries; urges the Member States, therefore, to make the fight against tax havens, tax evasion and illicit capital flights from developing countries one of its overriding priorities; reiterates in this context its conviction that the automatic exchange of information should be globally ...[+++]extended and implemented within a multilateral framework;

1. Credit institutions, cash transporters and any other economic agents engaged in the sorting and distribution to the public of notes and coins, including establishments whose professional activity consists in exchanging notes and coins of different currencies, such as bureaux de change, and economic agents engaged, as a subsidiary activity, in the sorting and distribution of notes to the public by means of automated teller machines, shall be obliged to ensure that euro notes and coins which they have received and which they intend to put back into circulation are check ...[+++]ed for authenticity and fitness for circulation and counterfeits are detected.

1. Credit institutions, cash transporters and any other economic agents engaged in the sorting and distribution to the public of notes and coins, including establishments whose professional activity consists in exchanging notes and coins of different currencies, such as bureaux de change, and economic agents engaged, as a subsidiary activity, in the sorting and distribution of notes to the public by means of automated teller machines, shall be obliged to ensure that euro notes and coins which they have received and which they intend to put back into circulation are check ...[+++]ed for authenticity and fitness for circulation and counterfeits are detected.

Automatic Duplexing: The capability of a copier, fax machine, MFD, or printer to automatically place images on both sides of an output sheet, without manual manipulation of output as an intermediate step.

For instance, automatic mandatory mobility for senior management and for people in money-handling, contract-handling posts will in itself provide a safeguard against a repetition of the double accounting that we have detected in Eurostat.