Meal vouchers in Europe About this site: how the meal voucher rules are checked
About this site: how the meal voucher rules are checked
This site is a reference on meal voucher rules in seventeen European markets, published by Verestro, a card issuing technology company. Every figure on it comes from a primary source, every page carries the date it was last reviewed, and every correction is made on the page and in the calendar. This page explains who writes it, how facts are checked and how to report an error.
Who publishes it and why
Verestro is a Global Mobile Payments Technology Provider. Its card issuing platform runs employee benefit cards for issuers and benefit platforms, and meal voucher cards are one of the programmes it builds. The reference exists because every conversation about such a card starts with the same questions: what is the daily ceiling, who is allowed to issue, which merchants may accept, what changes next year. Those answers were scattered across national acts, ministry registers and issuer press releases, and often in one language only. This site collects them in one place, in English and in the language of each market.
The site is a reference first and a product page second. Verestro's own product appears where the rules touch it, mainly on the card programme and order pages, and stays out of the country pages beyond the section on what a rule means for a card programme.
Where the figures come from
Each country page and each register page has a Sources section at the end, with links to the acts, decrees, ministry registers and official notices it relies on. The order of preference is fixed: the legal text first, the register or the ministry's own page second, an official notice or the national statistics body third. Industry data, such as the share of transactions on card in France, is attributed to the body that published it, in this case the Commission Nationale des Titres-Restaurant.
Registers of authorised issuers are reprinted as published, with the date of the register's own update, in alphabetical order and without comment on the companies listed. The Italian list follows the Ministry of Enterprises, the French list the CNTR, the Belgian list the FOD Economie, the Romanian list the Ministry of Finance.
How pages are reviewed
Every page carries a "Last reviewed" line under its opening paragraph and a dateModified in its structured data. A review means reading the page against its sources again, checking every register for a newer update, and re-running the site's own checks: word count, the presence of the target question in the opening, valid structured data, working links, and a scan for claims the site does not make, such as superlatives about any supplier.
Pages are prepared by Verestro's team from the primary sources and reviewed before publication. Local language pages are written from the same sources as the English page, so the figures are identical across languages; the wording is adapted to the terms used in each market, such as buoni pasto, titre-restaurant, maaltijdcheques or stravenky.
How corrections are made
When a fact changes or turns out to be wrong, the page is corrected, the calendar is corrected, and any figure or table that repeated the fact elsewhere on the site is corrected in the same release. The most recent example is the end of paper titres-restaurant in France. The site stated a date from a government announcement of June 2025; the bill filed in June 2026 sets a different date and has yet to be adopted, so every mention across seventeen pages and two figures was rewritten to give the status of the bill, its number and the date it would take effect.
Pending changes are marked as such. A proposal, a bill or a draft decree is described as a proposal, with the stage it has reached, and is only stated as the rule once it is in force.
What the site does not do
It does not rank issuers or comment on their market position. It does not give tax or legal advice for a specific employer; the rules are described as published, and an employer's own adviser applies them to the payroll in question. It does not reproduce a national register as an endorsement of anyone on it. It does not publish the price of a specific programme; the public price list is on the pricing page and any quote is prepared per programme.
How to report an error
Write to sales@verestro.com with the page address and the source that contradicts it. A correction that changes a figure is published within the next release, and the page's review date moves with it. Register updates are checked at every review, so a company that has joined or left a register between two reviews is the most likely thing to be out of date; a link to the register's newer version is enough to trigger the update.
Languages
The reference is written in English for the whole of Europe. Each market with a local page has a hub in its own language, listed in the footer of every page, with the local pages and links into the English reference. The English page and its local twin declare each other through hreflang, so a search engine shows the version in the reader's language.