Abstract: Procedures for the performance of electronic chip-card personalization and/or initialization and/or a chip-card application, characterized by the following procedural steps: contacting the chip card by a first device; setting up or providing a connection between the first device and a separate second device designed to establish a logical communication link to provide for communication between the chip card and the second device via the first device; requesting the performance of chip-card personalization and/or initialization and/or a chip-card application, with the request directed to the first device by the second device; and performing the requested chip-card personalization and/or initialization and/or the requested chip-card application by way of a transparent transfer of data and/or commands back and forth between chip card and second device via the logical communication link.