EU laissez passer

Country Signing Certificate Authority (CSCA)

Introduction

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.

Distinguished Name

The distinguished name of the EU Laissez-Passer CSCA is:

C=EU; O=European Union; OU=European Commission; CN=EU Laissez Passer CSCA

Certificates and CRL

Release date: 27 July 2020
Valid until: 27 October 2031
Serial Number: 1595843107
SHA256: 269f28027f321ae19c603bd8e3c5b8124fcb5074e1eb900dfbe41bf20cee99c2
SHA1: 565a13c5df76c284241a2cea0cdb2b4888044e03

EU Laissez-Passer signed with this certificate are in circulation from November 2020 on.

Release date: 27 July 2020
Valid until: 27 October 2031
Serial Number: 1596007994
SHA256: faa8d41a9811d14fa72c4f0c84295d4ea61d18fd7ca1b0cd67974ef2bce82a58
SHA1: 85a7c92a2010dcaaa1929dcfadcd9cf4bf8105db

Release date: 4 November 2015
Valid until: 4 February 2027
Serial Number: 1446657155
SHA-1 fingerprint: 43cb1bac78fb2d63eaaed7fa51b9e70b4db4b57a

Deviation List

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.

Contact Information

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.