Defines test methods for characteristics of identification cards as defined in ISO/IEC 7810. Each test method is cross-referenced to one or more base standards, which may be ISO/IEC 7810 or one or more of the supplementary standards that define the information storage technologies employed in identification cards applications. (ISO/IEC 7810 is published in South Africa as an identical adoption under the designation SANS 7810).Criteria for acceptability do not form part of ISO/IEC 10373 but will be found in ISO/IEC 7810. Test methods defined in ISO/IEC 10373 are intended to be performed separately. A given card is not required to pass through all the tests sequentially. ISO/IEC 10373-1 deals with test methods which are common to one or more card technologies and other parts deal with other technology-specific tests. ISO/IEC 10373-5 deals with test methods which are specific to optical memory card technology. (ISO/IEC 10373-1 and ISO/IEC 10373-5 are published in South Africa as identical adoptions under the designations SANS 10373-1 and SANS 10373-5, respectively).