CEN/TS 15480-1:2012

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Identification card systems - European Citizen Card - Part 1: Physical, electrical and
transport protocol characteristics
Identifikationskartensysteme - Europäische Bürgerkarte - Teil 1: Physikalische,
elektrische und transportprotokollbezogene Merkmale
Systèmes de cartes d'identification - Carte européenne du citoyen - Partie 1 :
Caractéristiques physiques, électriques et des protocoles de transmission
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TS 15480-1:2012
ICS:
35.240.15 Identifikacijske kartice in Identification cards and
sorodne naprave related devices
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
CEN/TS 15480-1
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
October 2012
ICS 35.240.15 Supersedes CEN/TS 15480-1:2007
English Version
Identification card systems - European Citizen Card - Part 1:
Physical, electrical and transport protocol characteristics
Systèmes de cartes d'identification - Carte Européenne du Identifikationskartensysteme - Europäische Bürgerkarte -
Citoyen - Partie 1: Caractéristiques physiques, électriques Teil 1: Physikalische, elektrische und
et des protocoles de transmission transportprotokollbezogene Merkmale
This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 18 June 2012 for provisional application.

The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their
comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard.

CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS available
promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards in force (in parallel to the CEN/TS)
until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United
Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents Page
Foreword .3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .5
2 Normative references .5
3 Terms and definitions .5
4 Symbols and abbreviations .8
5 ECC requirements for citizen identification using physical means .8
6 ECC physical characteristics .9
6.1 General .9
6.2 Materials . 10
6.3 ECC physical security elements . 10
6.3.1 General . 10
6.3.2 Security levels . 11
6.3.3 Security elements . 11
6.3.4 Background and text printing . 11
6.3.5 Ink and other imaging media . 12
6.4 Durability . 12
7 Electrical characteristics . 12
7.1 Dimensions and location of the contacts or coupling area . 12
7.2 The contact interface . 12
7.3 Contactless interface . 12
8 Transport protocols . 13
9 Terminal characteristics . 13
Annex A (informative) Recommendations for the layout of the ECC . 14
A.1 Introduction . 14
A.2 ICAO 9303-3-based layout with contacts . 14
A.2.1 Document zones and information related . 14
A.2.2 Card size and printing margins . 15
A.2.3 Location of the contact module in the card . 15
A.2.4 Portrait side . 15
A.2.5 Non-portrait side . 18
A.2.6 Security Features for both portrait and non-portrait side . 19
A.3 ICAO 9303-3-based contactless layout . 20
A.4 Enhancements for the ECC layout . 21
A.4.1 General . 21
A.4.2 Zone I enhancements . 21
A.4.3 Zone II enhancements . 21
A.4.4 Zone IV enhancements . 21
A.4.5 Zone VII enhancements . 21
A.4.6 Optional elements . 21
A.4.7 Printing margins . 22
Bibliography . 23

Foreword
This document (CEN/TS 15480-1:2012) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 224 “Personal
identification, electronic signature and cards and their related systems and operations”, the secretariat of
which is held by AFNOR.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document supersedes CEN/TS 15480-1:2007.
Compared with the previous version, the following changes have been made:
 Framework information, which was mainly included in the former Clause 5, has been moved to Part 5.
 Re-drafting to include the existence of contactless or dual (i.e. contact and contactless) technology in a
European Citizen Card (in the previous version only contact-based ICCs were considered).
 The ECC security evaluation has been removed as it is considered outside the scope of this part.
 Annex A has been changed completely in order to allow different formats which are not necessarily
related to the European driving licence defined in Directive 96/47/EC. The new version of this annex
defines layouts to consider using contacts, or having exclusively a contactless interface. In all these
formats, a high level of compatibility with ICAO 9303 has been the aim.
 Annex B concerning durability testing has been removed from the standard; instead only some reference
information is provided in 6.4.
 Annex C has been removed as it was not considered physical information and therefore outside the
scope of this standard.
CEN/TS 15480 Identification card systems — European Citizen Card consist of the two following parts:
 Part 1: Physical, electrical and transport protocol characteristics
 Part 2: Logical data structures and card services
 Part 3: ECC interoperability using an application interface
 Part 4: Recommendations for ECC issuance, operation and use
 Part 5: General Introduction
According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following
countries are bound to announce this Technical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Introduction
This Technical Specification describes a set of requirements covering the physical, electrical and transport
protocol characteristics of the European Citizen Card. Part of these requirements come from ISO/IEC JTC 1
SC 17 published standards and ICAO specifications, in order to maximise the ECC interoperability and
acceptance for the OSI layers addressed by this specification.
This Technical Specification is intended to offer the card issuer with a great deal of flexibility for the ECC
specification, in connection with services that the ECC provides, the authentication mechanisms supported
and the national specific public policy with a special concern to protect the citizen privacy according to the
applicable European legislation.
The relationships between this document and the other parts of the ECC specification can be found in ECC
part 5.
The reader is warned that the ECC Durability methodology available in the original version of this Technical
Specification has been replaced by a reference to the ISO/IEC 24789-1 and ISO/IEC 24789-2 standards.

1 Scope
This Technical Specification specifies Electronic Citizen Card (ECC) requirements.
The requirements described in this Technical Specification are used to:
1) define a plastic body card with associated physical and logical securities;
2) specify the electrical interface and data transport protocols for the ECC;
3) support the basic set of Identification and, authentication elements visible at the card surface;
4) provide guidance for the specification of the ECC Durability.
In addition to the above requirements, informative Annex A in this document recommends different Physical
Layouts for the ECC for two scenarios:
 when the ECC is issued to act as a travelling document;
 when the ECC is not issued to act as a travelling document.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 7810, Identification cards — Physical characteristics
ISO/IEC 7816-1, Identification cards — Integrated circuit(s) card(s) with contacts — Part 1: Physical
characteristics
ISO/IEC 7816-2, Identification cards — Integrated circuit(s) cards with contacts — Part 2: Cards with contacts
— Dimensions and location
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