Security devices and security features used in banknotes and other security documents; optically variable devices; diffractive security devices, including diffraction gratings, holograms and diffractive optical elements; currency authentication apparatus and equipment; detectors and sensing apparatus; apparatus and equipment for detecting security documents, security films and inks and security devices; optical detection apparatus; magnetic encoded cards and films; smart cards; identification cards; charge cards; bank cards; credit cards; debit cards; payment cards; card readers; computer hardware and software for use in currency authentication apparatus and equipment; computer hardware and software for producing diffractive security devices; computer hardware and software for implementing encryption, authentication and other security features in relation to encoded cards and films

Banknotes; cheques; credit cards; passports and other security and identification documents; printed and embossed security films and features; printed documents bearing encrypted or encoded information; banknotes and security documents or devices made from plastic or polymeric material, combined or not with paper; press-ready paper substitutes