§ 2-6. Ban on fees for card payments
Machine-translated from Norwegian. The Norwegian text is the one that applies. Read the original in Norwegian.Norsk English العربية Polski Українська
The text of the law (unofficial translation)
§ 2-6. Ban on charging a fee for the payer's use of a card
What does this mean?
The section prohibits the payee from charging the payer a fee for certain payment methods. The ban applies to payment cards that fall under the EU regulation on interchange fees for card-based payments, and to euro payments covered by the EU regulation on credit transfers and direct debits (direktebelastning).
The ban applies only when both payment service providers, or the only one involved, are established in the EEA. So if the payment instrument is covered, the payee may not charge a fee at all. By comparison, § 2-4 allows fees, with a cap for consumers (forbrukere). The rule is in Chapter 2 on payment settlement.