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1.1 Scope of CEN/TS 15480-5:2013 The scope of this Technical Specification is to provide a general description of the standard together with an introduction to each part of the ECC standard. Informative Annex A maps the relationship between the various parts of the ECC standard and other ISO/IEC standards relating to the card platform. 1.2 Scope of the ECC standard The European Citizen Card (ECC) standard addresses the difficulties presented to citizens when attempting to access various public services using a smart card as an access token. The scope of the ECC standard covers card capabilities and structures specified under the following headings: - Specific definition of minimum features (for example, card surface print structure). - Definition of optional features that may be required to provide the desired electronic services. - Specification of discovery mechanisms to allow supported and in-use card capabilities and features to be identified. - Besides covering the hardware and software of the card, the ECC standard also addresses interfaces to readers and servers through middleware components. This simple concept can enable ECC cards to adopt a widely different set of personas, even though a common application may be housed on cards used in different environments and in different ways. Generically, we can consider ECC cards as being classed as one of the following groups, even though the same application may be loaded (alongside others) in each environment. These groupings are: - eID Verification token; - Inter-European Union travel document; - Provider of logical access to e-Government or local administration services or to private sector services by housing personal credentials. In order to support the above, it is noted that there will be certain minimum requirements upon any card conforming to the ECC, specifically, the European Citizen Card will be at a minimum a smart card with Identification, Authentication and electronic Signature (IAS ...