HM Treasury together with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department of Trade and Industry, have produced a leaflet with key facts for business and holiday travellers on the introduction of euro cash. The leaflet explains what the change to euro cash means and the steps that can be taken to prepare for it before visiting the euro area. The leaflet is available at major UK airports and ports and some other outlets but can also be downloaded here as a pdf.

Click here to download pdf of leaflet [size: 355KB]

Further information is also available in the Euro Cash section of this site. The Euro Cash section provides information on, and images of, euro notes and coins. It also provides information on the security features, the key euro area dates and the fixed exchange rates that were used for conversion from euro area legacy currencies to euro.

This leaflet was updated in July 2002 and replaces the version that was published in Autumn 2001. The old version is available in pdf here [size: 364KB].