"The present document describes the UICC Application Programming Interface for Java Card? for contactless Applications. Its purpose is to provide access for a contactless Applet to the services provided by the HCI protocol defined in [4] for the communication via the CLF. In the scope of this document contactless means support for the RF Technologies referenced by the HCI specification [4]. Low level functionality to manage gates and pipes as defined in the HCI specification [4] is not in the scope of this document. Registration of contactless parameters and management of contactless Applets in card emulation mode is defined in ""GlobalPlatform Amendment C"" [8]."