To provide a portable electronic equipment, its issuing system, its issuing method, and access management method capable of efficiently and accurately executing issuing processing even when applications to be used for respective individuals among a plurality of applications are different.
At the time of receiving an application selection command from a reader/writer 21 (ST32), an IC card 1 refers to setting related with the use/non-use of a selected application based on a DF use flag EF104 of a data memory 16 (ST33). In the case of an application whose 'non-use' is set, the IC card 1 transmits an error status indicating that the selected application is not present to the reader/writer 21 (ST35), and in the case of an application whose 'use' is set, the IC card 1 transmits a normal end status to the reader/ writer 21 (ST37).
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