# Commission Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 of 4 May 2012 laying down technical requirements with regard to driving licences which include a storage medium (microchip) (Text with EEA relevance), Division I.5.2.1: Mandatory Basic Access Protection

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The Basic Access Protection mechanism (BAP) shall be applied for all data in the EU Driving Licence application. In the interest of interoperability with existing systems such as that using Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTD) it is mandatory to use the one-line Machine Readable Zone (MRZ), as specified in Annex II, item 10.
The Kdoc document key used to access the chip is generated from the one-line MRZ, which can be entered either manually or using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) reader. The BAP 1 configuration defined for a one-line MRZ as specified in Annex II, item 10 shall be applied.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/383/annex/I/division/I.5/division/I.5.2/division/I.5.2.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-383/annex-I/division-I.5/division-I.5.2/division-I.5.2.1
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