Technical documents

On the 17th of April, The European Commission tabled a proposal for a regulation to improve the security features of EU citizens’ identity cards and residence cards with the aim at curbing document fraud. Eurosmart and its members are fully committed in achieving the highest level...

By Sylvain CARRIOU, Mourad FAHER, Alban FERAUD and Christine HENNEBERT The digital world is now hyperconnected and it is gradually changing daily life of the European Citizens and consumers. This transformation of our society imposes to revise also our legal framework to make sure that the European...

In recent months, customers of the smart card industry have raised the question, whether smart cards and smart card based products (e.g. SIM cards, payment cards, electronic passports, electronic ID cards, health insurance cards) would fall under the scope of the WEEE Directives. The industry...

Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU impacts the way in which the RFID products are placed on the European market. Eurosmart issued on 6th November a position paper to present its understanding of the Directive. Besides, in order to clarify the scope of the directive, Eurosmart...

Back in November 2009, Eurosmart published a white paper on the Smart M2M module. At that time, the association was anticipating a massive deployment of connected devices in several sectors of the industry, and claimed that our industry had the technologies to solve the security...

Eurosmart, SPA and SIMalliance joint Press Release points out that used smart cards are not to be considered Electrical and Electronic Waste, and that treating smart cards as Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) would cause serious damages. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.eurosmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/14-01-02_Eurosmart-SIMalliance-SPA_Position20on20WEEE20Directives1.pdf" title=""]...

Registered and Certified by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) under the reference BSI-CC-PP-0084-2014. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.eurosmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pp0084b_pdf1.pdf" title="pp0084b_pdf"]...