Under the EMV law, an airport would be liable for the cost of someone using a counterfeit credit card to purchase fuel, for example. Not complying isn’t a criminal offense, but it could impact an airport financially. “Are things just going to turn into pumpkins after April? Well, no, but you need to understand your liabilities and risks after April,” he said. The most common aviation self-service fuel systems in Minnesota are those by Syntechĭespite the deadline, Christenson said airports’ self-serve fuel systems will still work. In a webinar March 18 sponsored by MnDOT and AirTAP, Christenson explained the regulation and offered advice for airports needing to make this change. “Unfortunately, our aviation markets are not able to attain this deadline,” said Kris Christenson, navigation systems radio engineer with the MnDOT Office of Aeronautics. Because upgrading fuel pumps is complicated, the deadline for automotive and aviation self-serve fuel stations to upgrade their systems was recently extended to April 2021.īut there’s a catch. Those companies not complying by 2015 would be liable for any losses resulting from fraudulent transactions (as opposed to the card companies, which had been the case).įuel sellers have been the exception to this due date, however. To ensure adoption, an industry-specific regulation was put in place, known informally as the credit card chip reader law, requiring all merchants to upgrade their point-of-sale systems to support EMV chip cards. And it seems to be working: since implementing this embedded chip technology, known as EMV (for Europay, Mastercard, and Visa), Visa has reported an 80 percent drop in counterfeit fraud. The chip technology was meant to deter fraud, most notably card skimming. This technology, considered safer than the magnetic swipe strip, has been implemented by most merchants since 2015. Most of us probably don’t give our credit card chip much thought. 2 Change coming to airport self-service fuel systems

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