The AMC standard
What is the AMC standard?
The citizen multi-service application (AMC) standard is explained quickly and simply in a short animated video.
Watch the video (in French, external link)
Following ADCET’s work, the French National Standardisation Commission granted the AMC (citizen multi-service application) the status of a full standard in June 2016. Its AFNOR reference is NF P 99-508.
ADCET created the standard and is responsible for its development. It governs the common AMC and, in this capacity, is a signatory of the usage agreement and manages the cryptographic keys and the registries. ADCET also offers services to support the development of the AMC, such as:
- training sessions and webinars;
- support and advice for project implementation;
- certification of common AMC media.
Any entity using the common AMC standard, whatever its position in the value chain, must sign a usage agreement, and any medium that includes the standard must comply with the AMC graphic guidelines.
Who uses it?
The standard is present in all French transport cards and is already used by many local authorities for other services (recycling centres, swimming pools, libraries, tourism, youth cards, etc.), including:
- Greater Paris (Vallée Sud)
- Brittany and Rennes Métropole
- Bordeaux Métropole
- Greater Lyon
- Lille and the Lille metropolitan area
- Évreux Portes de Normandie
- Sète Agglopôle
- Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
- Le Grand Narbonne
- the Lons-le-Saunier urban area
- Chamonix and the Mont-Blanc valley
Rules of use
The strong growth of the common AMC requires ADCET, as the body responsible for its governance and security, to be more vigilant and rigorous. Any public or private organisation involved in issuing a common AMC (manufacturer) or using the common AMC (user entity), whatever the use, must therefore sign a usage agreement with ADCET and be registered by the association.
Running a project based on the common AMC is only possible because ADCET provides the resources needed to support, develop, secure and govern the common AMC, which represents a significant workload.
The agreement can therefore be granted free of charge, provided that the user entity and/or the manufacturer is a member of ADCET and up to date with its membership fees. Where the user entity and/or the manufacturer does not wish to join ADCET, or is no longer up to date with its fees, a fee is set out in an annex to the agreement between ADCET, the user entity and/or the manufacturer.
We are grateful to you for passing this information on to any third party you may work with on a common AMC project. As a member, you are also asked to help make sure that each partner is registered with ADCET as an organisation that has signed the agreement, in particular by stating this obligation in the calls for tenders and contracts you conclude with third parties for the use and/or production of the common AMC.
The common AMC logo must appear on every medium that includes the common AMC. Each card manufacturer is asked to submit a visual for approval before any new production; if the logo is missing, ADCET will object to the production of the cards.
Finally, the AMC specification may not be redistributed: any entity wishing to consult it must purchase it from AFNOR (standard NF P 99-508 on afnor.org).
Details: Rules of use of the common AMC standard.
Registries
As the Common Registration Authority, ADCET keeps the following public registries: