Initially, interventions were addressed to address isolated cases of stressed institutions and mainly fell into two categories: (1) the rescue of troubled individual institutions, whose failure may have given rise to financial instability; and the (2) provision of guarantees covering the liabilities of individual institutions under stress.
The Commission called upon the respective associations to implement its recommendation. For the dual display of prices, it proposed a minimum standard for the exactness of the prices. Retailers are also to indicate clearly whether they are prepared to accept payments in euro during the transitional period.