In this chapter the following format notation conventions have been used:
Characters printed in bold denote plain text to be printed (printing remains in normal characters),
Normal characters denote variables (pictograms or data) to be replaced by their values for printing,
Variable names have been padded with underscores to show the data item length available for the variable,
Dates are specified with a ‘dd/mm/yyyy’ (day, month, year) format. A ‘dd.mm.yyyy’ format may also be used,
The term ‘card identification’ denotes the composition of: the type of card through a card pictograms combination, the card issuing Member State code, a forward slash character and the card number with the replacement index and the renewal index separated with a space: