GB nº 20, Consolidated EMV® 4.1 Specification announcement

General Bulletin N° 20 First Edition June 2004 Version 1.0 Consolidated EMVTM Specification A new version of the EMV™ Integrated Circuit Card Specifications for Payment Systems, version 4.1, is now available for downloading in the Specification Section. EMV 4.1 includes all EMV 2000 (version 4.0) related Application Notes and Specification Update Bulletins posted to the EMVCo website up to and including May 2004. With the large number of updates published, it became very difficult to identify, interpret and implement all requirements correctly. As a result, EMVCo received many requests from the industry to resolve the situation by incorporating the published updates into the body of the four EMV books as opposed to having the information reside in a number of supplementary documents. EMVCo responded by creating EMV 4.1, which is essentially an editorial update of EMV 2000 and has no impact on devices already tested and approved to EMV 4.0. Changes and additions introduced to EMV 4.0 through the bulletin process – now included in EMV 4.1 - have already been addressed by the Type Approval process. The EMV 4.1 release also includes the recently announced Common Core Definitions within the new specifications. This document contains proprietary and confidential information of EMVCo LLC. Copyright © EMVCo LLC 2004