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GS1 in Europe objectives are: - Leading the creation and implementation of harmonised, user driven solutions for improving the ‘Supply & Demand Chains’ for European users, based on GS1 standards - Harmonising the implementation of GS1 standards and solutions across Europe

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Response to Digital Product Passport (DPP) service providers

10 Dec 2024

Please see attachment for GS1 in Europe's feedback to the call for evidence on the rules for DPP service providers. Thank you.
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Response to Evaluation of EU Directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement & Communication for EP and Council

14 Apr 2023

GS1 in Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the future EU rules on e-invoicing by highlighting why open, global, non-proprietary product data standards, like GS1 Electronic Data Interchange EDI, play a particularly significant role. GS1 EDI provides global standards for electronic business messaging that allow automation of business transactions commonly occurring across global supply chains. It covers master data alignment, order and delivery and financial settlement management, as well as transport and warehouse management. The primary business partners in scope for this are retailers, manufacturers, material suppliers and logistic service providers. For more please visit https://www.gs1.org/standards/edi. Existing use of GS1 EDI is highlighted by the more than three hundred million invoices in the German retail sector every year. Additionally, use of EDI Invoicing based on the GS1 standard EANCOM INVOIC adds up to more than one billion invoices based on GS1 Standards across Europe each year. EDI invoices are the backbone of digitalization in Europe, ensuring competitiveness of European companies in the world. The introduction of mandatory e-invoicing for B2G has extended the adoption of digital exchange from the B2B domain to the relationship with public sector. E-Invoicing has provided concrete benefits for administrations seeking to be able to automatically manage the invoice reception and reconciliation, reducing error and manual activities. The definition at European level of a core data model for public sector e-invoicing has also reduced the issues related to cross-border transactions. On the other side, the impact of the directive on B2B and on business in general has been more limited. Main reasons for this being: -only a fraction of companies playing in the market are involved in B2G relationships. - EU directives limitations of the supported syntaxes, not including some widely used formats (e.g., ISO-UN/CEFACT EDIFACT). This, in turn, has forced companies who have already deployed EDI to develop additional investments. - in supply chain processes, the invoice is only one of the steps that need to be digitalized. To achieve maximum efficiency, procurement and shipment phases must also be digitalized and one common, global language for business is essential. To be consistent, it is advisable to: Focus on harmonized semantics and a scalable data model. Cross border interoperability is much more related to the harmonization of the expected content of a message, allowing messages that leverage globally relevant syntaxes to be seamlessly translated. Translation between syntaxes is becoming exponentially easier, allowing for preservation of already deployed investments. Avoid unnecessary disruption of existing supply chain processes. In terms of formats, especially if looking at an extension to the B2B domain, it is important to preserve the existing standards and being able to exchange sector-specific data. This avoids disruptions to highly automated processes that are not suffering from the inconsistencies that the Directive seeks to address. For less automated invoicing processes (wok-flow-based or manual invoice verification), common standards should be supported et European level, i.e., EN 16931 and related standards (Factur-X). Attention should be given to the latest trends and technologies emerging in the market, like JSON and JSON-LD, based on Schema.org representation. Also, the exchange model is under discussion, with an increasing interest for resource-based models, as an alternative to more traditional (and limited) document exchange models. Focus on the basic requirements, in terms of exchange infrastructure and on security, rather than on the promotion of specific infrastructure, is recommended. Success with cross-border interoperability is possible using different infrastructures, and the possible diffusion of new exchange infrastructures, like OpenAPI.
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Response to Revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU

29 Mar 2022

GS1 in Europe welcomes this consultation on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. We highlight why open, global, non-proprietary product data standards support energy efficiency in buildings and in construction materials. Our vision for the sector is to leverage GS1's existing standards, targeting business process optimization within the entire construction market’s value chain, including the planning, building and operation (facility management) phases as well as the de-commissioning / reuse phase where the products are adequately prepared for another lifecycle. Our aim is to strongly support the EU Green Deal and circular economy targets including all new buildings to become carbon neutral. From a data perspective, GS1 open standards enable persistent product identification along value chains, across-sectors, and geographies. GS1 identification standards can serve this vision by enabling persistent identification of buildings components, construction products, locations and parties. This happens through data attributes linking energy performance with product identity. GS1 standards enable structured and interoperable data management for all relevant stakeholders. For us in GS1, the overall objective of the Directive to reduce new and existing buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption implies that buildings should indicate their global warming potential based on their whole-life cycle emissions and eventually be supported by their Energy Performance Certificate and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). Persistent and unambiguous identification for construction products and components is based on global and open identifiers like the Global Trade Item Number GTIN (https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/gtin) together with linked data standards like the GS1 Digital Link (https://www.gs1.org/standards/gs1-digital-link). This combination enables decentralised access to data attributes such as brand owner, product name, weight, product image or product specific parameters such as thermal transmittance, solar energy transmittance and air permeability in accordance with, e.g. EN 14351-1. The GS1 industry community is developing guidelines to reduce the disruption the construction actors may face. GS1 is participating in a joint public private Proof of Concept currently running in Sweden to more efficiently design new buildings and their CO2 footprint in accordance with the Swedish law on climate declarations. We believe our approach is in line with the Directive’s Article 7 scope. In addition, the underlying methodology of the Swedish pilot can be applied also in renovations. We support the Digital Property Passport for the Construction industry. The detailed product information allows at least: • an unambiguous evaluation of the technical, biological, economical and social risks including CO2 when determining the product’s next stage for recyclability. • the identification of the location, property and party, all relevant (electronic) documents, and all installed products and objects in the property. The Digital Property Passport will ensure that all relevant data of a building are machine readable to all relevant stakeholders (transparency), are accessible to all systems in the value chain (interoperability) and persistent over time (longevity). The GS1 system of standards is already applied across 25 sectors including the rail industry, which faces similar requirements for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul using serialisation to allow the tracking and tracing of individual assets over their lifetime. GS1 in Europe recommends that international, open standards are considered as a main driver in increasing stakeholders structuring and exchanges of product data attributes which will result in better environmental performances. Circularity can’t be reached without interoperable data structure built on global standards.
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Response to EU Company law upgraded Package:digital solutions and providing efficient rules for cross border operations of companies

9 Jul 2018

On Behalf of GS1 in Europe, please find hereby in annex comments to the consultation.
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Response to Implementing act under Article 15(11) of the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU

2 Oct 2017

On behalf of Mr Bruno Aceto, Chairman of GS1 in Europe, please find here in annex GS1 in Europe's comments on the draft implementing regulation.
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