TTA Bulletin n°285: Book C-8 Test Package Release version 1.1d

EMV® Terminal Type Approval Bulletin No. 285 Third Edition May 2026 New Book C-8 Test Package Release This Bulletin announces the availability of Book C-8 Test Package Release version 1.1d Applicability This Bulletin applies to the Book C-8 Type Approvals. Related Documents This Bulletin should be read in conjunction with: - EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems – Book C-8 - Kernel 8 Specification, Version 1.1, June 2023 - EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems - Book E Security and Key Management, version 1.1, June 2023 - EMV Specification Bulletin No. 302, 1st Edition March 2024 - EMV Specification Bulletin No. 310, 1st Edition March 2025 - EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems - Book A Architecture and General Requirements, version 2.11 June 2023 - EMV Terminal Type Approval – Books A & B – Test Cases, Version 2.11c, June 2025 - EMV Terminal Type Approval – Contactless Product – Administrative Process, Version 2.11c, June 2025 Effective Date - Immediate _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ © 2025-2026 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. Page 1 Dear, EMVCo announces the availability of the Book C-8 Test Package Release version 1.1d for Type Approval. This test package shall be used for all Book C-8 Type Approvals, until further notice. Please contact your Contactless Product recognised Laboratories for their Contactless Kernel C-8 Testing readiness. Overview of changes Here are the main changes related to the current Test Package Release. - Public documents: no impact. - Laboratory documents: o [PerfTests]: fixed the amount in the test 2PB.001.00. - Test Tool files: EMVCo provided the following corrections to the Tool Vendors: o Fixed a test coverage error when the reader postpones the parsing of the records until after the Generate AC. Impacted tests:  4M25-9226 || 01 and 04  4M25-9227 || 01 and 04 o Fixed a test coverage error when the reader postpones the decryption of the records until after parsing the unencrypted records. Impacted test:  4M35-0243 | B | 02 Public documents The following documents are available on the EMVCo website. [ICS] [TestCases] [TestEnv] [ReaderConfs] Contactless Kernel C-8 Implementation Conformance Statement, Version 1.1b – July 2025 EMV Terminal Type Approval – Book C-8 – Test Cases, version 1.1c, October 2025 EMV Terminal Type Approval – Book C-8 – Testing Environment Requirements, version 1.2, July 2025 This document describes the requirements the Product must meet to run the C-8 Kernel Type Approval tests. Zip file C8 ReaderConfs, version 250910 This archive contains the Readerconfs.xmd file containing all the test configurations the Product Provider shall implement for the C-8 Kernel Type Approval. This file is an XML format file. The extension ‘.xmd’ was used to ease the communication with the Test Tool Vendors. This file can be managed as any XML file, and it can be opened with a web browser, a text editor, or an XML editor. Additional details about the file format are included in the document EMV Terminal Type Approval – Book C-8 Testing Environment Requirements. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ©2025-2026 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. Page 2 Laboratory documents The following items are available for the recognised laboratories: [C8app] [C8LTsettings] [IndpdcyTests] [IndpdcyTestReport] [PerfTests] [PerfTestReport] [RRPcard] [UndiscTests] [C8TestReport] C8 Performance Application, Version 1.1.2 This mobile application is used to run the Independency and Performance tests. Zip file C8 LTsettings Version 1.1 This archive contains the card profiles to be loaded in Mobile test application to conduct Performance and Independency tests. EMV Terminal Type Approval – Modular & Independency Test Cases, Version 2.11c, June 2025 EMV Terminal Type Approval – Contactless Product Modular and Independency Report version 2.11c (250611) EMV Terminal Type Approval – Performance Test Cases, version 2.11c.a.r, March 2026 This document lists the Performance and Relay Resistance Protocol Accuracy tests. EMV Terminal Type Approval – Contactless Product Performance Report version 2.11c (250611) Relay Resistance Protocol Accuracy test card, Version 1.0 This test card is used to run the Relay Resistance Protocol Accuracy tests. EMV Terminal Type Approval – Book C-8 – Undisclosed Test Cases, version 1.0.r, September 2025 This document defines the undisclosed tests. Those tests are not available to the product vendor. Word: EMV Terminal Type Approval – C-8 Kernel Report version 1.1b (250821) json: EMVCo_TCP_C8_Report_Template_v10_241012 Test Tool files The following item is available to the tool vendors only: [XMCpack] C8testPack, Version 260507 This package is used as an input by the tool vendors to build the System, Undisclosed and Unitary tests. This package is confidential. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ©2025-2026 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. Page 3 Overview The following table summarises the documents and material to be used for each test category. Note that the documents [ICS], [TestEnv] and [ReaderConfs] are applicable to all test categories. Test category Independency Performance RRP Accuracy System Test Document(s) [IndpdcyTests] [PerfTests] [PerfTests] [TestCases] Undisclosed [UndiscTests] Unitary [TestCases] Material Report [C8app] + [C8LTsettings] [C8app] + [C8LTsettings] [RRPcard] [IndpdcyTestReport] [PerfTestReport] [PerfTestReport] Recognised test tool compliant with [XMCpack] Recognised test tool compliant with [XMCpack] Qualified test tool compliant with [XMCpack] [C8TestReport] [C8TestReport] [C8TestReport] _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ©2025-2026 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. Page 4 Legal Notice This document is subject to change by EMVCo at any time. 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