Do you appreciate the difference there? Yes, I do. But the mechanism has worked; in fact, it’s worked well. The European Commission expressed its point of view, based on European rules.
In the next two weeks, we will be starting a public awareness campaign to inform the public of the new notes. The new banknotes will go into circulation from 10 April. The new and the “existing” notes will circulate side by side until the existing notes go out of circulation. Both designs are of course legal tender.