This International Standard provides specifications for intelligent transport systems (ITS) station management to be compliant with the ITS station reference architecture and the set of communications access for land mobiles (CALM) related standards. Management actions are specified via a) service access points, b) messages and data that flow between the ITS station management entity and the security entity, the application entity and the various communication protocol layers of the ITS station reference architecture, and c) protocol data units for management communications between addressable instances of functionality of an ITS station.