Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies interoperable application profiles for the information exchange between toll chargers (TCs) and toll service providers (TSPs), by selecting suitable options from the base standard EN ISO 12855:2025.

Figure 1 shows the scope of this document in the context of EFC standards.

Please see draft for Figure 1 — Scope of EN 16986 in the context of EFC-standards

This document covers:

—      exchange of information between back-end systems of TCs and TSPs, e.g.:

—     charging related data (toll declarations, billing details, payment claims, payment announcements);

—     administrative data (trust objects, EFC context data, contact details for enforcement, etc.);

—     user related data (exception lists, user details, abnormal behaviour information, CCC event data, user complaints);

—     confirmation data.

—      transfer mechanisms and supporting functions;

—      semantics of data elements;

—      definitions (Annex A) of restrictions on data types w.r.t. the ASN.1 definitions in the base standard EN ISO 12855:2025 by introducing an XML Schema Definition (XSD) for each specified profile;

—      implementation conformance statement (ICS) proforma (Annex B), as a basis for evaluation of implementation for conformity to this document;

—      an interoperability statement proforma (Annex C), as a basis for assessment of transactional interoperability between the technical implementation of a TC and a TSP;

—      a web service definition (Annex D) covering the use of simple object access protocol (SOAP) services as communication technology.

The implementation of the underlying back-end systems and their business processes is not covered. Therefore, the following aspects are outside the scope of this document:

—      details about how back-end systems use the authenticator data elements of the base standard to implement security;

—      how to use the data exchange to operate compliance checking and the enforcement process;

—      commercial aspects;

—      definition of non-functional features such as key performance indicators, acceptable fault levels, availability of interfaces of TC and TSP, and reporting requirements.

This document further explains the correspondence between the European electronic toll service (EETS) legislation and this document (Annex E).