A method for completing at least one portable data carrier connected to a completion device, wherein a completion data set that is present on the completion device is introduced into the data carrier. A security module is connected to the completion device and different authorization data sets are provided on the security module. The security module includes a management application for managing the different authorization data sets. Each of the authorization data sets exactly specifies one completion, and each of the authorization data sets is exactly associated with one completion data set. The managing application on the security module monitors the completion of the at least one data carrier according to the specification in an authorization data set selected from the different authorization data sets.