Certification: Your guarantee of success with public transport customers

Certification: Your guarantee of success

As participants in eTicket Deutschland, transport companies and transport associations are contractually obliged to use certified ticketing components. Around 700 companies currently belong to.

In cooperation with the testing laboratory cetecom advanced GmbH, we offer certification of all eTicket Deutschland components:

User media, e.g. chip cards
Acceptance terminals, e.g. control, registration or sales terminals
Background systems
Security modules in the form of SAM servers or SAM clusters

This gives manufacturers the opportunity to check their components for VDV core application standards and receive a corresponding certification certificate from us.

Here you will find an overview of the components we have already certified.

To the overview

Supporting the introduction of Motics: free post-certification of DL terminals

The participants in (((eTicket Deutschland have decided that from 1 January 2026, all transport companies in Germany must check tickets that are secured with Motics. As a manufacturer, we support you by recertifying your DL terminals free of charge - under two conditions:

The DL terminal must have been certified by us after 1 November 2021
The certified software version has not changed since then, only the Motics functionality has been added

If this applies to your terminals, please send us an email to zertifizierung.ets@vdv.de by 31 October 2025 with a reference to the original certification and a declaration that only the Motics functionality has been added to the certified software version (PDF with signature).

The tests will take place on our premises in your presence in November 2025 at the latest. You will receive the certificate from us in December 2025/January 2026.

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Five steps to certification:

You download the test application for the component to be certified, fill it out and send it by email to zertifizierung.ets@vdv.de
We coordinate the application with you. You commission the testing laboratory to certify the components.
Your component is tested on site at cetecom advanced.
The cetecom advanced testers draw up a test report based on the test protocol.
You receive your certification certificate from us and the respective component is included in our overview of certified components.

You can also find all information on the procedure and prices in our product sheet.

Download product sheet Product sheet English

To have your components certified, you must submit a corresponding test application to us. We will coordinate the application with you before you commission the test laboratory. From the chip card to the bus printer to the recording equipment - download your test application here:

Test application for user media (NM)
Test application for acceptance terminals (AKT)
Test application for background systems (HGS)
Test application for static authorisation (STB)

For the certification of a SAM server or SAM cluster, please use the separate test application. In this case, the test laboratory is VDV-ETS. Once you have submitted the application, you will receive an offer for certification from us. After commissioning, the application will be reviewed and then the SAM server or SAM cluster will be tested.

Do you still have questions? Get in touch with us!

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