Striving towards greater efficiency sometimes clashes with the aim of increased quality and security, which come at a price. This intention was, for instance, pursued with the EU regulation on coins from 2010. This regulation was, however, also criticised, in particular with regard to its partially impractical stipulations.
However, market participants themselves did not make use of the long transitional periods – which ended on 31 December 2014 – to overcome the difficulties they had in meeting the requirements.