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Significant milestones in
GS1 History:
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History - 1988-1992
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| 1988
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- Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey join
the EAN movement.
- WPCOM (Working Party Communication) formed, the
future CSC EDIFACT (created within UN/ECE) adopted as the EDI (Electronic Data
Interchange) standard for national (where Numbering Organisations did not already have a
national standard) and international communications. EAN becomes a subscriber of UN/ECE/WP-4
as a non-governmental body.
- EAN and UCC
endorse EAN.UCC-128 for coding supplementary information
on dispatch units.
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| 1989
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- Chile, Colombia, Hong Kong, Peru, Cuba, Poland and
Uruguay join the EAN movement.
- 1st version of UCC/EAN application identifiers
published.
- GS1 Guide on general merchandise and apparel
published (based on UCC).
- 1st version of EANCOM manual containing 7 trade
message released.
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| 1990
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- EAN Global Office
becomes a liaison subscriber of CEN (Comite Europeen de
Normalisation) technical committee on bar coding,
CEN/TC 225.
- Agreement with UCC
on technical co-operation for the global compatibility
of UCC and GS1 standards.
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| 1991
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- Bulgaria, China and Central America (Costa Rica,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) join GS1 movement.
- Mission statement adopted.
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| 1992
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- Croatia, Ecuador, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia,
Tunisia join EAN movement.
- Name changed to EAN Global Office.
- 2nd version of EANCOM manual, containing 13
messages published.
- International EAN guidelines approved on the
coding of product variants.
- Label standard
for using EAN Application Identifiers released.
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