This website contains information on the Country Signing Certificate Authority operated by the European Commission for the issuance of the European Union Laissez-Passer according to Council Regulation (EU) No 1417/2013 of 17 December 2013 laying down the form of the laissez-passer issued by the European Union.
More specifically, it provides the PEM encoded self-signed certificates of the EU Laissez-Passer CSCA, their SHA-1 fingerprints and information about naming structure (DN), validity dates and serial numbers.
This website is also the primary source for the Certificate Revocation Lists.
Contact information provided below can be used to request a printed copy of the information required to verify the authenticity of the certificates.
The distinguished name of the EU Laissez-Passer CSCA is:
C=EU; O=European Union; OU=European Commission; CN=EU Laissez Passer CSCA
EU Laissez-Passer issued to EU officials of German nationality may contain “wrong data in MRZ field”, depending on the date of issuance. The Nationality field contains the string “DEU”, as listed in the official ISO 3166 country code list maintained by ISO 3166/MA, for all EU Laissez-Passer issued prior to 05/05/2022. Since then, all new EU Laissez-Passer issued to German nationals have the value “D<<” for the Nationality field, to make it consistent with the specification in ICAO Doc 9303 Part3.
The main communication channel for the EU Laissez-Passer CSCA is email. Please use this email address only for issues related to the CSCA and not to the EU Laissez-Passer in general.
The email address is: eu-csca AT ec.europa.eu.