Such restrictions can certainly vary from one Member State to another, but the legal tender status as such, so to speak the “nature” of our banknotes, including the core elements of this status mentioned before, must be preserved. We monitor this. I’ll come back to this shortly. Why does legal tender status exist at all?
The relevant provision in the Treaty6 does not itself constitute a fundamental right or is not equivalent to a fundamental right (in any case not according to prevailing opinion). So there is no “right to cash” or “right to cash payment in all cases”.