Standards on Digital Product Passport
European standards and standardization work covering the initiative "Digital product passport". CEN standards, CENELEC standards and other international standards
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European standards and standardization work covering the initiative "Digital product passport". CEN standards, CENELEC standards and other international standards
Information technology - International symbology specification - Data matrix (ISO/IEC 16022:2000)
50.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code symbology - QR Code (ISO/IEC 18004:2000)
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code print quality test specification - Two-dimensional symbols (ISO/IEC 15415:2004)
99.60 Withdrawal effective
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code verifier conformance specification - Part 2: Two-dimensional symbols (ISO/IEC 15426-2:2005)
60.60 Standard published
Information technology - EAN/UCC Application Identifiers and Fact Data Identifiers and Maintenance (ISO/IEC 15418:1999)
50.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Data Carrier Identifiers (including Symbology Identifiers) (ISO/IEC 15424:2000)
50.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Unique identification of transport units - Part 1: General (ISO/IEC 15459-1:1999)
50.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Unique identification of transport units - Part 2: Registration procedures (ISO/IEC 15459-2:1999)
50.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code print quality test specification - Two-dimensional symbols
30.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code verifier conformance specification - Part 2: Two-dimensional symbols
30.98 Project deleted
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code verifier conformance specification - Part 2: Two-dimensional symbols - Technical Corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 15426-2:2005/Cor 1:2008)
60.60 Standard published
Information technology - Automatic identification and data capture techniques - Bar code print quality test specification - Two-dimensional symbols - Technical Corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 15415:2004/Cor 1:2008)
99.60 Withdrawal effective
Smart tracker chips - Feasibility study on the inclusion of RFID in Electrical and Electronic Equipment for WEEE management
99.60 Withdrawal effective
Industrial process measurement, control and automation - Digital nameplate
60.60 Standard published
Identification link - Part 2: Types/models, lots/batches, items and characteristics
50.60 Close of voting. Proof returned by secretariat
Identification Link - Part 2: Types/models, lots/batches, items and characteristics
60.00 Standard under publication
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Data Matrix bar code symbology specification
90.92 Standard to be revised
Information technology — Data structure — Unique identification for the Internet of Things
90.93 Standard confirmed
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Data Carrier Identifiers (including Symbology Identifiers)
90.92 Standard to be revised
Security and resilience — Authenticity, integrity and trust for products and documents — Guidelines for the selection and performance evaluation of authentication solutions for material goods
60.60 Standard published
Security and resilience — Authenticity, integrity and trust for products and documents — Guidelines to establish a framework for trust and interoperability
60.60 Standard published
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Data Matrix bar code symbology specification — Technical Corrigendum 1
60.60 Standard published
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Data Matrix bar code symbology specification — Technical Corrigendum 2
60.60 Standard published
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — QR Code bar code symbology specification
90.92 Standard to be revised
Information technology — Procedures for the operation of object identifier registration authorities — Part 8: Generation of universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) and their use in object identifiers
90.60 Close of review
Information technology — Universal business language version 2.1 (UBL v2.1)
90.60 Close of review
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — GS1 Application Identifiers and ASC MH10 Data Identifiers and maintenance
90.93 Standard confirmed
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Extended rectangular data matrix (DMRE) bar code symbology specification
90.92 Standard to be revised
Information technology — Digital representation of product information — Part 1: General requirements
60.60 Standard published
Business requirements for end-to-end visibility of logistics flow
60.60 Standard published
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – Overview of existing DLT systems for identity management
60.60 Standard published
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Digital signature data structure schema
60.60 Standard published
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Identifiers of subjects and objects for the design of blockchain systems
60.60 Standard published
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Digital signature data structure schema — Amendment 1: Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Digital signature data structure schema — AMENDMENT 1: Domain Authority Identifier (DAID) specification for the GS1 legal entity identifier
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European and foreign companies should be aware and follow the developments in the field of Digital Product Passport
The product passport is an important tool to foster the sustainability of products and the transition to sustainable business models by making information available to actors along the entire value chain.
The product passport will enhance end-to-end traceability of a product throughout its value chain, help consumers make informed choices by providing access to product information relevant to them, allow economic operators and other value chain actors such as repairers or recyclers to access relevant information, and enable competent national authorities to perform their duties.
The product passports should be as uniform as possible across products, industry sectors and relevant EU legislations, and the way they are used as consistent as possible. This can help avoid confusion and misunderstandings arising when organisations or industries use different formats or standards.
The product passports should be easily shared and used across different systems and platforms. This will facilitate information exchange between various stakeholders, such as manufacturers, suppliers, customers, and regulators.
Will rely on harmonised standards to provide a clear and consistent set of guidelines and requirements, thus reducing the time and resources required to implement and maintain the system as well as stimulate innovation and competition of market players offering product passports (services).
Harmonised European standards will improve the quality of data captured in product passports by providing explicit definitions, guidelines and validation rules. This helps ensure that the data is accurate, complete and consistent. In addition, it is expected that they will cover:
Unique identifiers
(a) Global uniqueness of each identifier (i.e., the same identifier can not be assigned to different products, different economic operators, or different facilities),
(b) Syntax-related requirements,
(c) Semantic-related requirements,
The standards shall consider the diversity of identifiers currently used by economic operators and accommodate them as much as possible, for example, through contextual prefix (e.g., issuing agencies codes) where relevant. The standard(s) should allow both the possibility to use ‘centralised’ and ‘decentralised’ identifiers.
The unique product identifier should always refer to a product, being it at model, batch, or item level. The maximum length of the unique product identifier string should be 70 characters.
In order to promote interoperability, reduce costs for companies, and support coherency and consistency of digitalisation efforts, the standard(s) developed should adequately take into account typology of identifiers already used in other European legislations and initiatives.
Standards on data carriers
The standard(s) shall define common rules for how to construct the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) media to be used as data carrier linked to the product passport.
The requirements should concern, as applicable:
(a) symbology characteristics,
(b) data character encoding methods,
(c) symbol formats,
(d) dimensional characteristics,
(e) error correction rules,
(f) reference decoding algorithm,
(g) printing quality requirements,
(h) production quality requirements,
(i) user-selectable application parameters (if relevant)
Standards on links between physical product and digital representation, look-up mechanism
The standard(s) shall define clear rules and requirements related to access control measures to regulate the access to restricted product passport information.
Standards on interoperability (technical, semantic, organisation), including data exchange protocols and formats and data processing (introduction, modification, update)
The standard(s) shall define, inter alia, rules related to:
(a) Semantic description of a product, including but not limited to unambiguous meaning and consistent naming, where relevant a value list, a specific format and defined units of measure for all quantitative values,
(b) a common information model allowing for the implementation of dictionary systems,
(c) Data exchange protocols, including rules to exchange data between two or more parties,
(d) Processes to introduce, modify, and update information in the passport,
(e) Data models and formats to be used in exchange and representation.
Standards on data storage and data persistence
The standard(s) shall define rules for decentralised data storage and data persistence. Persistence is required to make sure that data included in the product passports would remain available even when the economic operator creating the passport is no longer active.
Standards on data authentication, reliability, integrity
The standard(s) shall provide an open and interoperable method, between automated identification services and data carriers, to read data, verify data originality and data integrity in offline and online use cases. It/They shall establish a framework for ensuring trust, interoperability and interoperation via secure and reliable electronically signed encoded data set (ESEDS) schemes for multi-actor applications in multi-sector environment.
Standards on data security and privacy
The standard(s) shall identify rules to guarantee IT-security and data protection. Existing relevant standards should be duly considered when drafting the new harmonised standard(s).