Best Practice Guidelines for Bank Giro Credits

These Best Practice Guidelines have been produced to assist:

• Businesses who print their own bank giro credits (BGCs).
• Printers who produce BGCs for their customers
• Members of the Bank Giro Certification (BGC) Scheme.
• Members of the Cheque Printer Accreditation Scheme (CPAS), who are automatically members of the Bank Giro Certification Scheme

BGC 'printing' is defined as one of the following:

·           printing BGC base stock and full code line

·           printing BGC base stock only

·           printing full code line onto BGC base stock supplied by a               member of the BGC Scheme or of CPAS.

Bank Giro Credit Best Practice Guidelines

These guidelines must be used in conjunction with C&CCC Standard 3.2, which contains mandatory details for design, layout and printing. It is essential to check that any BGC printed, part-printed or issued by your organisation has been produced in accordance with C&CCC Standard 3.2. This includes BGC base stock, on to which the full code line is subsequently added.

Standard 3.2 is available to purchase here.