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Considering the raise of mobile phone usage for payment and to follow the market’s needs, EMVCo has decided to introduce a pilot testing program to evaluate consumer mobile devices for contactless payment: Contactless COTS Level 1 Type Approval.

A COTS (CommercialOn-The-Shelf) product may be not fully compliant with EMV®contactless specification. EMVCo has defined a guideline than aim to adapt the existing EMV Contactless PCD Testing to COTS mobile Level 1 testing.

You will learn more about COTS by reading this document.