About "barcode management approach" implementation issues opinion letter

Quality Measures Han [2008] No. 67

Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps of Quality and Technical Supervision:

"Barcode management approach" (Inspection and Quarantine Order No. 76, hereinafter referred to as the "Rules") since October 1, 2005 implementation of the specification of the product bar code management, to ensure the product bar code quality, speed up product bar code applications, to improve the modern enterprise management level of commodity production, marketing, logistics and other aspects of the promotion of e-commerce, commodity circulation development of information technology has played a very important role. However, in the implementation process there have been some universal applicability. In order to facilitate quality and technology supervision departments at all levels and commodity bar mechanism proper understanding of the "measures", good commodity bar code management, for the application of the relevant regulations, the following comments, all localities to seriously implement.

I. With regard to the "unauthorized use of a registered vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity" violations identified problems

The specific violations include the following situations:

(A) unauthorized use of another registered vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity, systematically violated the exclusive right of the members of the product bar code;

(Ii) the use of EAN International and all member organizations and other organizations has not been allocated encoding company prefix and corresponding barcode;

(C) accept the assignment to use someone else's registration vendor identification code and corresponding barcode;

(Iv) without the filing, the territory's products registered overseas product code;

(V) Article Numbering Center of China without the filing, the company subsidiary Failing a separate application for registration vendor identification code, company registration vendor identification code.

Second, on the Group subsidiaries using a product code issues

(A) a subsidiary of its separate development, design and production of its own products, subsidiaries should use their own application for registration vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity.

(B) by the Article Numbering Center of China for the record, can be used by the subsidiary company authorized to use the vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity unified developed by the company, design and arrange production of similar products in the unified brand.

Third, with respect to products produced within the record of Foreigners registered product barcode

(A) goods produced within the territory of the enterprise itself can be used outside of a registered product code, but should be required filing procedures.

(2) Domestic enterprises by foreign enterprises commissioned the production of goods but not in its own name within product sales, product code registered overseas without the record.

Fourth, on the commission processing and imported products using product code issues

(A) commissioned processed products should be used Principal registration vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity.

(B) imports of the product can be used overseas manufacturers registered product code,

You can also use domestic distribution companies or agents registered vendor identification code and corresponding barcode for commodity.

Fifth, on the members of the system information change issues

(A) when the enterprise has been changed but not provided in time for the product barcode change procedures should be a deadline for correction, and urge enterprises to timely accordance with the provisions of goods bar code change procedures.

(B) due to corporate name change caused by the product bar code does not match with the actual user can be confirmed by the relevant certificate, the company offers its product barcode is whether legitimate users.

Six members of the system with respect to the encoded information to the Communications BANCC

(A) member of the system should be promptly barcode for commodity production and use of timely inform the location code branches via the Internet or other means.

(B) communications encoding information should include: product name, trademark, type, size, type of packaging and other basic characteristics of information and its corresponding product code.

(Iii) Article Numbering Center of China and the code branches to deal with members of the system and clear communications encoding information, and information relating to trade secrets confidential obligation.

7, on the in-store bar code problem

(A) the seller shall actively apply bar code automatic identification technology, the use of barcode for commodity retail settlement; existing qualified product code product should not be used in-store bar code to be replaced, coverage.

(B) To facilitate scanning settlement, the seller of goods not in its product code, the bar code can be used as a temporary store additional measures.

(Iii) due to substandard quality of goods bar code can not be read, you can make the same product barcode encoded on the bar code label does not recognize the barcode to be replaced in order to ensure coverage scanning application, but not to store code that can not read the goods to replace the cover.

(Iv) the producer can not produce their products in print, paste-store bar code for commodity sales, posing as the barcode for commodity. AQSIQ and National Standards Commission is the competent authority of the national commodity bar, unified organization and management of the national commodity bar. Article Numbering Center of China as a national commodity bar body responsible for the implementation of specific national commodity bar code management, and fulfill merchandise barcode job-related management functions, can commodity barcode registration, renewal, change, cancellation, application management in some provide specific guidance on specific issues.

February 19, 2008