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TTA Bulletin n° 205: Contact Terminal Level 2 and Contactless Product Type Approvals Operational Issues List

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EMV® Terminal Type Approval Bulletin No. 205 15th Edition, October 2026 Contact Terminal Level 2 and Contactless Product Type Approvals Operational Issues List

Applicability

  • This Approval Bulletin applies to
  • EMV Terminal Type Approval – Level 2 Test Cases – Version 4.4d
  • EMV Terminal Type Approval – Books A & B Test Cases – Version 2.11d

Related Documents

  • EMV Terminal Type Approval – Contact Level 2 – Administrative Process
  • EMV Terminal Type Approval – Contactless Product – Administrative Process

Effective Date

  • Immediate The present Type Approval Bulletin lists all issues raised by Product Providers, Tool Suppliers or Laboratories having operational impacts on the official test sessions or results. For each issue listed, an operational resolution is described below which is valid immediately, and the resolutions will be incorporated into the official yearly release documentation when next published. Note that except for critical issues, the usual yearly release is applicable for the update of the EMVCo documentation. www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. Reference Applicability Applicability Date

Description

Resolution TA-4541 Contact Level 2 Test Plan Immediate Test 2CJ.095.24: The pass criteria Unrecognised CVM (TVR_B3b7=‘1’) is incorrect for subcases 03, 04, 06 and 07. Until further notice, Laboratories facing failure in those subcases for this pass criteria, shall:

  • Keep the verdict as failed
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4541 Failures related to this pass criteria on these subcases will be accepted TA-4534 Product Testing Environment Immediate Termsetting25: this Termsetting is applicable whatever Autorun is supported or not. Autorun support request from Termsetting25 shall be deleted TA-4538 Entry Point Test Plan Immediate Tests 2ED.009.34 and 2ED.009.36: select Kernel ID value is incorrect in all pass criteria. In both test cases the right value shall be TK8 Until further notice, Laboratories facing failure in those two cases for this pass criteria, shall:
  • Keep the verdict as failed
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4538 Failures related to this pass criteria (Kernel ID shall be TK8 instead of the value defined in the test cases) TA-4558 Entry Point Test Plan Immediate Tests 2EC.001.12: due to incorrect Setting this test shall not be run Until further notice, this test shall not be run.
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4558 TA-4556 Entry Point Test Plan Immediate Tests 2EB.001.01: The pass criteria: Test Flag Data (tag ‘D1’): set to value ’08 00’ is incorrect. excepted value should be 00 00 Until further notice, Laboratories shall not run this test in the current release.
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4556 TA-4557 Entry Point Test Plan Immediate Tests 2EC.001.16: The pass criteria: Test Flag Data (tag ‘D1’): set to value ’A0 00’ is incorrect. excepted value should be 90 00 Until further notice, Laboratories facing failure in this test case for this pass criteria, shall:
  • Keep the verdict as failed
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4557 Failure of this pass criteria will be accepted TA-4569 Contact Level 2 Test Plan Immediate Tests 2CA.115.00 subcase 2, 2CM.001 subcase 2, 2CM.001.01 case 2, 2CM.003 subcase 2 and 4 and 2CN.004: when the Product under test supports SB308 and depending on the test tool Until further notice, Laboratories facing failure in these test case when the Product under test supports SB308, shall:
  • Keep the verdict as failed www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. implementation, some tags which are now RFU (such as Amount Other in binary format) may cause failure of the test results.
  • Investigate to ensure the failure is related to the Unused Tags form SB308.
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4569 and with the analyse. TA-4572 Contact Level 2 Test Plan Immediate Tests 2CA.119.03, 04, 09 and 10: Pass criteria 'Offline data authentication was performed (TVR_B1b8=‘0’)' related to Offline Data Authentication Performed does not apply for Online Only Terminal Until further notice, Laboratories facing issues for Online Only Terminal with this the Pass criteria 'Offline data authentication was performed (TVR_B1b8=‘0’)' in these test cases, shall:
  • Keep the verdict as failed
  • Investigate to ensure the failure is related to this pass criteria only.
  • Add a comment with the reference TA-4572 www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. For additional information, please contact EMVCo CATA Secretariat terminal_approval@emvco.com www.emvco.com. EMV® is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries.

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