Division 7 Date/signature/authorisation

Where necessary, the issuing authority may affix here its signature and its stamp and/or require the holder to affix his signature.

If this space is used, the date should be entered by means of three groups of two figures in the order laid down in the third subparagraph of point 3.

Where the Member State's legislation or practices require the affixing of an issuing-office stamp, the stamp could be located in the rectangle bounded on the right by the right edge of the standalone document, on the left by the ‘Remarks’ box, above by the emblem of the Member State and below by the base of the card in the ID1 format, or by the machine-readable area in the ID2 format.

It is also desirable that the stamp consist of a rectangle 1 cm high x 2,5 cm^f1 wide showing the name of the authority issuing the residence permit and the signature and/or the date; the signature and/or the date should be framed on each side by three parallel horizontal lines, the middle one being half as long as the other two.