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Payments Law — EU payments legislation Official

eu.paymentslaw/legislation

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

EU payments legislation: PSD2, RTS-SCA, PSD3/PSR, DORA; provisions, definitions and text changes.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

paymentslaw.eu (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

15

Token cost

About 7,524 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http legislation https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.legislation]
url = "https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"legislation":{"httpUrl":"https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"legislation":{"url":"https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"legislation":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add legislation https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"legislation","server_url":"https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"legislation","server_url":"https://mcp.paymentslaw.eu/mcp/v1"}

Tools

• compare_versions ~1125 tokens
  Use this to compare an article between the Commission proposal and the Council compromise text of PSR or PSD3, within the same instrument. Serves the word-level comparison the build published: a pair is servable if and only if a diff artefact exists for it — the PSR and PSD3 proposal↔compromise pair
• fetch ~264 tokens
  Use this to open and cite an EU legislative provision found by search. Simple retrieval of one provision's text by its cite anchor id (e.g. "psd-2 Art 97"), with citation metadata. A provision longer than the response ceiling arrives in part, with metadata.complete false and a metadata.next_cursor t
• get_defined_term ~858 tokens
  Use this to read and compare the held legislative definitions of a term, such as payment transaction in PSD2 and PSR. These are source definitions, not a general dictionary or a legal opinion. Every definition verbatim and resolved, clustered by what the text actually says, with the chronological an
• get_instrument ~252 tokens
  Use this to check an EU instrument's recorded legal status, source version, dates and amendments, including whether a held PSR or PSD3 text is a proposal, a Council compromise text or the act published in the Official Journal. Metadata, dates, lifecycle and application events, and curated relationsh
• get_orientation ~391 tokens
  Use this for a starting reading order in EU payments legislation when a relevant curated pathway exists. For other subjects use search_legislation. Curated reading pathways into the corpus for a stated audience: ordered waypoints with cite anchors every other tool can open, related defined terms and
• get_provision ~788 tokens
  Use this to read or quote an EU legislative provision, such as PSD2 Article 97 or RTS-SCA Article 5. Returns the source text of an article, annex or recital as markdown, with its cite anchor, provenance and text state; a long provision paginates by structural block. version_id is optional, and a pin
• get_source_notes ~443 tokens
  Use this to read the original legislative footnotes and source-note bodies for a held instrument, including preamble and annex notes. Omit note_key for the paginated inventory; supply an exact returned key to retrieve one. Keys retain source scope because printed markers may repeat. This tool does n
• list_instruments ~327 tokens
  Use this to discover which EU instruments are held before a coverage question, or find their registry ids and legal status. Paginated, filterable by status, category, core/supplementary, and by whether an instrument was in force on a given date. For corpus-coverage questions, filter by category here
• list_provisions ~284 tokens
  Use this to browse an EU instrument's article, annex or recital index, or enumerate its topic-tagged provisions for a coverage question. Metadata only: each item carries the exact locator get_provision accepts. Articles and annexes by default; pass kind=recital for recitals.
• list_version_changes ~566 tokens
  Use this to browse which articles changed between the Commission proposal and the Council compromise text of PSR or PSD3; no comparison with a text published in the Official Journal is held. For one article's wording changes use compare_versions. Across those two texts, lists every aligned article w
• resolve_citation ~312 tokens
  Use this to resolve a written EU legal citation, such as Article 97(1) PSD2, into an instrument and provision locator. For a topic rather than a citation, use search_legislation. Ranked candidates with ambiguity flagged and confidence stated: exact (instrument certain, provision found), strong (inst
• search ~191 tokens
  Use this to find EU payments legislation on topics such as SCA, open banking and safeguarding in the held PSD2, RTS-SCA, PSD3/PSR and related instruments. Simple search returning the top hits as {id, title, url}, where id is the cite anchor fetch accepts. For filters, snippets, scores and paging use
• search_defined_terms ~440 tokens
  Use this to find which EU instruments define a legal term, such as payment transaction or payment account, and where their definitions differ. For definition wording use get_defined_term. A listing: term, definers and divergence flags, with no definition text. Matching is over the term itself, never
• search_legislation ~648 tokens
  Use this to find EU legislative provisions on payment-services questions: strong customer authentication (SCA), dynamic linking, open banking, safeguarding and payment liability. For exact wording use get_provision; for defined-term wording use get_defined_term. Full-text search across articles, ann
• show_changes ~635 tokens
  Shows the reader what changed: presents a comparison or a change inventory to the reader as an interactive card, this service's intended way of showing what changed between the two texts of a served pair. With article, the card is that article's word-level comparison, side by side with every change

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