SIST-TS CEN/TS 17489-2:2025
(Main)Secure and interoperable European Breeder Documents — Part 2: Data model
Secure and interoperable European Breeder Documents — Part 2: Data model
This document specifies the abstract data model for breeder document data and the specific encodings of this abstract data model used in the CEN breeder document framework.
The abstract data model is a semantic description of the birth, marriage / partnership, and death certificate data, independently from their specific encoding. This abstract data model is extensible for further standardized and proprietary data of birth, marriage / partnership, and death certificates as well as for other types of breeder documents.
This abstract data model is technology agnostic, i.e. it is applicable for paper-based, server-based, and hardware-based breeder documents as well as further breeder document designs and technologies.
The specific encodings of this abstract data model comprise the encodings to be used for the machine readable technologies specified in part 3 of the framework as well as the encoding of human readable breeder document data. These encodings are used in the birth, marriage / partnership, and death certificate profiles specified in part 4 of the framework.
Sichere und interoperable Europäische Ausgangsdokumente - Teil 2: Datenmodell
Dieses Dokument legt das abstrakte Datenmodell für Ausgangsdokumentdaten fest. Die im Rahmenwerk der Ausgangsdokumente verwendeten spezifischen Codierungen dieses abstrakten Datenmodells werden in einer zukünftigen Ausgabe dieses Dokuments festgelegt.
Das abstrakte Datenmodell ist eine semantische Beschreibung der Geburts-, Heirats-/Lebenspartnerschafts- und Sterbeurkundendaten, unabhängig von deren spezifischer Codierung. Dieses abstrakte Datenmodell ist für weitere standardisierte und nationale Geburts-, Heirats-/Lebenspartnerschafts- und Sterbeurkunden¬daten sowie für andere Typen von Ausgangsdokumenten erweiterbar.
Dieses abstrakte Datenmodell ist technologieagnostisch, d. h. es ist für papierbasierte, serverbasierte und hardwarebasierte Ausgangsdokumente ebenso anwendbar wie für weitere Gestaltungen und Technologien von Ausgangsdokumenten.
Die spezifischen Codierungen dieses abstrakten Datenmodells umfassen die für in CEN/TS 17489 3 definierten maschinenlesbaren Technologien zu verwendenden Codierungen sowie die Codierung von für Personen lesbaren Ausgangsdokumentdaten. Diese Codierungen werden für die in CEN/TS 17489 4 festgelegten Profile für Geburts-, Heirats-/Lebenspartnerschafts- und Sterbeurkunden verwendet.
Documents sources européens sécurisés et interopérables — Partie 2 : Modèle de données
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2025
Varni in interoperabilni evropski izvorni dokumenti - 2. del: Podatkovni model
Secure and interoperable European Breeder Documents — Part 2: Data model
Sichere und interoperable Europäische Ausgangsdokumente - Teil 2: Datenmodell
Documents sources européens sécurisés et interopérables — Partie 2 : Modèle de
données
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TS 17489-2:2024
ICS:
35.240.15 Identifikacijske kartice. Čipne Identification cards. Chip
kartice. Biometrija cards. Biometrics
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
CEN/TS 17489-2
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
December 2024
TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
ICS 35.240.15
English Version
Secure and interoperable European Breeder Documents -
Part 2: Data model
Documents sources européens sécurisés et Persönliche Identifikation - Sichere und interoperable
interopérables - Partie 2 : Modèle de données Europäische Ausgangsdokumente - Teil 2: Datenmodell
This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 17 December 2023 for provisional application.
The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to
submit their comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard.
CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS
available promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards in force (in
parallel to the CEN/TS) until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.
Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Symbols and abbreviations . 7
5 Abstract data model . 7
5.1 Conventions and notation . 7
5.2 Abstract data elements . 7
5.2.1 Breeder Document . 7
5.2.2 Birth Certificate . 9
5.2.3 Marriage / Partnership Certificate . 9
5.2.4 Death Certificate . 10
5.2.5 National Certificate . 10
5.2.6 Person . 10
5.2.7 Name data elements . 12
5.2.8 Date and time data elements . 17
5.2.9 Generic data elements . 19
Bibliography . 25
European foreword
This document (CEN/TS 17489-2:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 224
“Personal identification and related personal devices with secure element, systems, operations and
privacy in a multi sectorial environment”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North
Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United
Kingdom.
Introduction
A legally recognized identity enables citizens to exercise their rights and access state and other services.
This includes the right to travel and access to travel documents such as passports, as well as access to
education, healthcare, social services, and bank accounts. In order to establish legally recognized
identities of citizens states implement identity management (IdM) systems.
Breeder documents are legal documents which certify a vital event of a person and are essential
components of these IdM systems. According to the United Nations terminology [8] vital events include
live birth, death, foetal death, marriage (which includes partnership), divorce, adoption, legitimation,
recognition of parenthood, annulment of marriage, or legal separation. These vital events of a person are
recorded in the civil register (if used) of the state, during a process which is called registration, and a
corresponding breeder document is issued to the citizen.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) points out the importance of a breeder
document (denoted as primary documents) framework [6]:
“While there are several layers of identity management that produce different types of identity documents,
frameworks for issuing primary identity documents are the critical components of the entire identity
management system. They provide a framework for the legal establishment of one’s identity and identity
documents on the basis of which other types of identity documents may be issued.”
While there are standardized frameworks for identity documents such as travel documents including
passports, a standardized framework for secure and interoperable breeder documents is missing.
For machine readable travel documents (MRTDs) including passports the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) has published the Doc 9303 standard [3] which has been prepared in collaboration
with the standardization group ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17/WG3. The international adoption and
implementation of this standard establishes a certain security level for travel documents and enables
interoperability e.g. by means of the standardized layout and character set used for travel documents.
The lack of breeder document standardization leads to interoperability as well as security issues. The
layout of breeder documents differs between states and often even between the municipalities of a state.
Breeder documents typically do not support machine readable technologies, and therefore their data has
to be manually entered for subsequent processing which is error prone and time consuming. The non-
standardized layout can hinder a verifier to identify the required breeder document data and a
translation of the breeder document is potentially required. This translation potentially uses a
transliteration of names, i.e. a conversion of the names from one alphabet to another, and this can lead to
different spellings of the name of the same person, e.g. if diacritical marks are used in the original breeder
document, but not used in the translated document.
For instance, the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS) [5] has addressed these interoperability
issues in several conventions and recommendations that specify a data set and a character set to be used
as well as identifiers for the different data fields of a breeder document.
Breeder documents are typically used as an identity evidence in identity proofing scenarios for issuing
travel documents. Due to the established security level of travel documents and the typically lower
security level of breeder documents fraudsters aim at obtaining authentic travel documents on the basis
of false identities based e.g. on non-genuine or forged breeder documents instead of forging or
counterfeiting travel documents. Therefore fraudsters use:
— counterfeit breeder documents, i.e. unauthorized reproductions of genuine documents;
— forged breeder documents, i.e. genuine breeder document that have been altered;
— genuine breeder documents of another person; i.e. they impersonate the legitimate holder of the
breeder documents. As breeder documents such as birth certificates usually do not include
information that links the breeder document to its legitimate holder, strong organisational methods
are required to establish this link, in particular in the case of first-time registration;
— forged data and identity evidence documents to obtain breeder documents with false data
representations.
Breeder documents are considered the weakest link in the issuance process of travel documents, see the
ICAO guidelines [4] for best practices on how breeder documents are used in this process. For this reason
the European Union (EU) has funded projects to investigate solutions for strengthening the security of
breeder documents: The FIDELITY project [2] suggests among others a standardized birth certificate
design, the support of physical security features and an online verification of the birth certificate. The
ORIGINS project [7] analysed the issuance of breeder documents used for passport delivery, identified
loopholes in this process, and proposed security measures and processes to enhance the security of
breeder documents. These enhancements include the standardization of breeder documents and the
harmonization of the related processes. In addition the European Commission has issued an action plan
to strengthen the European response to travel document fraud [1] which recommends a minimum
security level for breeder documents to prevent counterfeiting and forging.
The breeder document framework in CEN/TS 17489 (all parts) takes the results of these EU projects [2],
[7] into considerations as well as the ICCS conventions and recommendations [5].
1 Scope
This document specifies the abstract data model for breeder document data. The specific encodings of
this abstract data model used in the breeder documents framework will be specified in a future edition
of this document.
The abstract data model is a semantic description of the birth, marriage / partnership, and death
certificate data, independently from their specific encoding. This abstract data model is extensible for
further standardized and national data of birth, marriage / partnership, and death certificates as well as
for other types of breeder documents.
This abstract data model is technology agnostic, i.e. it is applicable for paper-based, server-based, and
hardware-based breeder documents as well as further breeder document designs and technologies.
The specific encodings of this abstract data model comprise the encodings to be used for the machine
readable technologies specified in CEN/TS 17489-3 as well as the encoding of human readable breeder
document data. These encodings are used in the birth, marriage / partnership, and death certificate
profiles specified in CEN/TS 17489-4.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
DIN 91379:2022, Zeichen und definierte Zeichensequenz
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