— the interfaces between electronic fee collection (EFC) systems for vehicle related transport services, e.g. road user charging, parking and access control; it does not cover interfaces for EFC systems for public transport; an EFC system can include any EFC system, e.g. including systems that automatically read licence plate numbers of vehicles passing a toll point,

— an exchange of information between the central equipment of the two roles of service provision and toll charging, e.g.

— transfer mechanisms and supporting functions,

— information objects, data syntax and semantics,

— examples of data interchanges (see Annex C and Annex D), and

— an example on how to use this International Standard for the European Electronic Tolling Service (EETS) (see Annex F).

— any communication between Toll Charger (TC) or Toll Service Provider (TSP) with any other involved party,

— any communication between elements of the TC and the TSP that is not part of the back office communication,

— processes regarding payments and exchanges of fiscal, commercial or legal accounting documents, and

— definitions of service communication channels, protocols and service primitives to transfer the APDUs.