ISO 21719-1:2026

Electronic fee collection — Personalization of on-board equipment (OBE) — Part 1: Framework

This document establishes a framework and specifies electronic fee collection (EFC) functions for the personalization process of on-board equipment (OBE) used for EFC.

The personalization process takes place within the domain of the entity that is responsible for the application in the OBE.

This document is applicable to the EFC interface, e.g. using dedicated short-range communication or integrated circuit(s) card, between the personalization equipment (PE) and OBE as shown in Figure 1.

This document does not cover the following:

• whether the personalization functionality resides completely in the PE or whether this functionality instead resides in a central system, where the PE is more or less “transparent”;
• the exact application command or message structures for the EFC personalization functionality (these are dependent on the communication media and are described in subsequent parts of the ISO 21719 series);
• the test procedures for evaluation of an implementation for conformity to the requirements in this document;
• setting-up of operating organizations (e.g. toll service provider, personalization agent, trusted third party).

NOTE            Some of the issues listed above are subject to separate documents prepared by ISO/TC 204, CEN/TC 278 and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute – Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters (ETSI ERM).

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