new optical element developed for protection of valuable documents and trade marks ARTWORK AND SECURITY CHARACTERISTICS O F THE HOLOGRAM FOR THE SAMPLE “EUROVIGNETTE” LABEL Position 1 Position 2 Position 10 1. LETTERS “EU” in two contrasting colors. By rotation in different angles letters remain in color and this color changes depending on the viewing angle. ÂÈÄÈÍ ÐÓÑÅ ÄÎÁÐÈ× ÏËÅÂÅÍ ÌÎÍÒÀÍÀ ØÓÌÅÍ ÂÐÀÖÀ ÂÀÐÍÀ ËÎÂÅ× ÂÅËÈÊÎ ÒÚÐÍÎÂÎ ÃÀÁÐÎÂÎ ÑÎÔÈß ÏÅÐÍÈÊ ÑËÈÂÅÍ ÊÀÇÀÍËÚÊ ÑÒÀÐÀ ÇÀÃÎÐÀ ÁÓÐÃÀÑ ßÌÁÎË ÊÞÑÒÅÍÄÈË ÏËÎÂÄÈÂ ÄÈÌÈÒÐÎÂÃÐÀÄ ÏÀÇÀÐÄÆÈÊ ÁËÀÃÎÅÂÃÐÀÄ ÀÑÅÍÎÂÃÐÀÄ 2. High-contrast outline of letters EU which are visible even in poor light conditions by rotating the hologram on 90 degrees around the vertical axis 3 EU 10. Nano image Stylized map of Bulgaria 3 Position 3. Letters EU which size varies from nano text with character size 0.05mm readable by microscope to micro text with character's size of 0.25mm readable by magnifying glass. 4 4. Microtext – names of European cities with letter's size of 0.17mm readable by magnifying glass. 10 1, 2 5 9 U 6 7 EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU Narvik EU EU EU Istanbul Hamburg Bergen Trondheim Hammerfest Narvik Tampere Poznan Gdansk Gävle Nantes Le Havre Rostock Göteborg Malmö Aberdeen Belfast Liverpool Rome Newcastle Cardiff Glasgow Bordeaux Málaga Porto Valencia Bilbao Barcelona Bratislava Munich Bonn Marseille Strasbourg Frankfurt Krakow Milan Naples Venice Thessalonika Constants Varna Sicily Rhodes Crete Sardinia Corsica Balearic Islands Bornholm Shetland Hammerfest EU allinn Riga Vilnius Mins Paris Bern Brussels C gue Vienna Sofia Tiran mbourg Warsaw Helsin in Oslo Stockholm Dub Belgrade Edinburgh g Bergen Trondheim H San Marino Monaco Liech. 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Madrid Budapest Prague Vienna Sofia Tirana Moscow Aegean Lisbon Sardinia Tyrrehenian Sea Sea Bucharest Luxembourg Warsaw Helsinki Reykjavik Greece Valencia Amsterdam Berlin Oslo Stockholm Dublin London Balearic Islands Ionian Sea Athens Istanbul Hamburg Bergen Trondheim Hammerfest P trai Strait of Gibraltar M laga Narvik Tampere Poznan Gdansk Nantes Le Havre Mediterranean Sea Gävle Sicily Rostock Göteborg Malmö Aberdeen Belfast Liverpool Rome Gibraltar (U.K.) Crete Newcastle Cardiff Glasgow Bordeaux Málaga Porto Valencia Bilbao Barcelona Bratislava Munich Bonn Marseille Strasbourg Frankfurt Krakow Milan Naples Venice Thessalonika Constants Varna Sicily Rhodes Crete Sardinia Corsica Balearic Islands Bornholm Shetland Porto Spain Odessa Budapest Vienna Slovenia (Kiev) ra Bratislava Munich 8 Minsk Gdansk Rostock Hamburg EU EU Istanbul Rhodes EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU E land Malm u Bordeaux Riga EU EU EU 14 Latvia EU 6. Holographic synthesized white color. VIGNETTE EU EU 6 France Bilbao Gotland G teborg Germany Strasbourg EU EU Belgium Le Havre Tallinn pr EU Brussels St. Petersburg Moscow Skegerrak Copenhagen Amsterdam lf d Estonia Stockholm Neth. U.K. Cardiff Bay of Biscay Gu lan ne Liverpool London EU Position G vle in of F Oslo Denmark Sea Newcastle Russia Tampere Helsinki D EU EU EU EU Dublin Irish Sea EU EU EU Edinburgh Glascow Belfast EU EU EU North Aberdeen Finland Norway EU EU EU EU EU EU EU Orkney Islands Hebrides Ireland Ume Trondheim Bergen Atlantic Ocean EU EU Shetland Islands EU 5. Fields in different colors in the European map which change their shades by changing the viewing angle of the hologram. EU 5 EU Position Faroe Islands (Denmark) Oulu D U EU EU E U EU EU E U EU EU U E E U U E U E EU EU E U EU EU EU U EU E E E U EU EU U E U U E U E EU EU EU Gulfof B othnia Position ÕÀÑÊÎÂÎ 11 4 13 12 Position 11 11. A field with flip effect by different viewing angle the letters change from “VIGNETTE” to “ÂÈÍÅÒÊÀ” (with Cyrillic letters). Position 7 VIGNETTE Â È Í ÅÒ Ê À Â È Í ÅÒ Ê À 7. Bright rainbow which colors merge with one another in horizontal direction by changing the viewing angle. Position 12 12. Halftone image of the relief map of Bulgaria. The different shades of the grey color are done by smooth variable density of the nano text with size of 0.05mm. Position 8 8. A field with “hidden information” – the letters “EU” that are visible only with special device. Position Position 13 opaque screen 14 13. Volumetric 3D letters “EU” which are visualized above the surface of the hologram 9 10. Guilloche element – interlacing design from thin colored lines with thickness of 0.005mm. ÅU EUU EU EU U U U EEU EEU E U E E EUU EU EU EU E U EU EU EU U U U EEU EEU E U E E EUU EU EU EU 3D 3D Position 14. 3D letters EU in the background. 2D HoloEast Ltd. 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