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No provider may demand an IBAN from one specific country.

Article 9 of SEPA Regulation 260/2012 bans IBAN discrimination: anyone accepting transfers or collecting direct debits may not dictate which member state your payment account sits in. It only has to be reachable via SEPA – nothing more.

Useful: If a landlord, energy supplier or streaming service rejects your foreign EU IBAN, that breaches EU law.

Source: eur-lex.europa.eu

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