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European Article Number (EAN)
EAN was modeled after UPC and was established
in 1977, for European countries of free economies.
The original member nations included:
France, Germany, England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Netherland and Austria.
Japan and Spain joined the following year. Australia later joined
in
1989.
Since then numerous other nations have joined from around the globe
making it the most popular and standardized common product code in use today.
(See Flag for a list of member nations
and their corresponding Flag codes.)
The name of management organization is
EAN International, soon to become GS1.
EAN Code System
Summary of EAN Symbol
Character Composition
In EAN symbol, there are 3 types of
characters to one numeric data.
- Left side Odd Parity
- Left side Even Parity
- Right side Even Parity
EAN Symbol expresses 13 digits by
12 characters.
The first digit is called prefix,
it has no character, but designated by the combination of
Odd Parity and
Even Parity,
in the left 6 characters.
(See prefix)
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