Participate the RFID Lab Spring Seminar and exhibition and learn the potential of the modern identification technology, the newest business solutions, and latest cases where RFID technology is applied. The event gathers together the decision makers of the leading organizations, specialists and RFID experts including also current information and varies number of interesting discussions.

The objective of the meeting, which is kindly hosted by Banco de España, is to further facilitate the exchange of views and experiences between national central banks using these GS1 standards or intending to do so.


The meeting is targeted primarily to those NCBs (National Central Banks) that have not already made their decision on the standards to be used as data format to support cross-border transactions or would like to have some more information on GS1 standards.

The available documents regarding the meeting are available here!

The European commission has launched an initiative to simplify eInvoicing in Europe.  The idea being that each national member state of the EU sets up a national forum on eInvoicing (Before June 2011) to  address the EU’s ‘16’ action points and then to report back to the EU’s master forum on eInvoicing.


At the upcoming meeting GS1 MOs will:
a) Get GS1 MOs involved in the local national eInvoicing and come up with a common position on the 16 issues at hand (see attachment).  By having a common GS1 position, we should not only save individuals’ time by having the responses to the issues ready, but also of course have a united voice as a GS1 organisation.
b) Inform the MO community of this process and facilitate their involvement – not all MOs know about these for a, indeed, even I didn’t know until Jim and Anders brought it to my attention.
c) Get feedback from national eInvoicing for a for further dissemination to other MOs – we need to know what topics are hot in which countries to enable a suitable GS1 response.

For further informationa about the meeting or to register please contact Douglas Hill at dsh@gs1.dk! 

The Global Food Safety Conference is a unique annual event, bringing together over 600 food safety specialists from over 40 countries around the world.


Meet with your industry peers and colleagues from around the world to exchange knowledge and best practice and to discuss and debate the questions you face every day when managing food safety in your company.
- Do business.
- Learn about the Global Food Safety Initiative.
- Become part of this growing network of food safety experts who know this event is not to be missed!

Find out  more about the event here!

GS1 in Europe held its Regional Session on 23 Feb under the umbrella of the Global Forum 2011 in Brussels.

More than 150 delegates joined us and got up to date with some of the latest initiatives of MOs and the new activities of GS1 in Europe!

You can download the presentations of the session below!

The last Share Best Practice Workshop was arranged during the Global Forum 2011 on 25 February (Friday) and was dedicated to national initiatives on “Do It Yourself” sector.

The aim of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for MOs who are more advanced concerning the DIY sector, to give a detailed insight in their national activities while the interested participants could continuously interrupt and ask questions thus hopefully allowing the attendees to have effective discussion and real exchange of information.

The presentations are available here!

GS1 in Europe in collaboration with the Swedish Transport Administration and the Finnish Transport Agency welcome you and other European rail infrastructure managers, train operators and wagon owners to a 1½ day meeting to discuss conditions for establishing a common European RFID standard within the rail sector.

Date and place:
February 16-17 2011
Stockholm City Conference Centre, Sweden
www.stocc.se/en

Registration:
www.gs1.se/RFIDinRail
Closing date for registration: 14th of January 2011

The meeting will commence at 14 CET on Wednesday 16 February with a series of plenary presentations focusing on activities and the state of RFID development in various European countries. The first day also includes a networking dinner in the evening. The second day, 17 February, will take the form of workshops where the different components of an RFID standard will be discussed as well as the relation to other modes of transport. In connection with RFID in Rail there will be an exhibition with a number of equipment suppliers.

A final agenda will be distributed a couple of weeks before the meeting. Please visit www.gs1.se/RFIDinRail for regular updates on the event.

Please see below the invitation. on behalf of GS1 in Europe we look forward to receiving your registration!

should you have further questions please contact Alice Mukaru at alice.mukaru@gs1.se .

The GS1 in Europe REC held its meeting in Paris hosted by GS1 France. The main topic for discussion was the preparation of the GS1 in Europe Business Plan 2011.

Papers of the meeting can be downloaded here:

On December 2, 2010 GS1 Germany hosts for the fifth time the GS1 Fashion Conference. The event will take place at Gerry Weber in Düsseldorf. Gerry Weber International AG is a clothing manufacturer that introduced RFID technology in order to optimize its logistics and retail processes.


For more details please download the programme below:

The REC of GS1 in Europe held its last meeting in London. The meeting was hosted by GS1 UK.

The papers for discussion and presentations can be downloaded here:

Due to the success of the first workshop organised under the umbrella of the European initiative "Share Best Practice Forum" GS1 in Europe provided another opportunity for MOs to share their experience in a specific sector.

The last half-day long workshop was arranged on 15 October in Dublin within the frame of the Regional Forum and was dedicated to national initiatives in the field of eGovernment. MO’s like GS1 Denmark, GS1 Hungary, GS1 Croatia, GS1 Sweden, GS1 Austria, GS1 Romania and more who are involved in eGovernment initiatives gave detailed insights into their national activities.

Presentations can be downloaded at the Project Zone of GS1 in Europe!

The GS1 in Europe Regional Forum 2010, hosted by GS1 Ireland, proved to be a big success with more then 200 participants from more than 30 countries.

The Forum provided a great opportunity to participate in both informal and formal meetings. A broad range of subjects was discussed including presentations from our users and other external organisations on topics such as supply chain management, data quality and traceability as well as reports from MO’s on global, regional and national projects.

GS1 MO’s also had the opportunity to present new and exciting projects from their own country, share experiences – both good & bad, and demonstrate best practices.

Presentations can be downloaded here!

GS1 and National Central Banks are going to hold their upcoming joint workshop on 21 April 2010, Cologne. The meeting will be hosted by GS1 Germany at their knowledge Center in Cologne.

All interested NCBs together with the relevant national GS1 Organisations and the European Central Bank are invited to the meeting.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Who is doing what at the moment? - Status update of the participants
• Live-Demo: CashEDI by Deutsche Bundesbank in Practice
• Visit GS1 Germany Value Chain live!
• Allocation of GLN to national central banks and ECB by GS1 MO’s
• Prepare GS1 in Europe Brochure for Cash Handling
• Harmonised Message Guides for CashOrder and NotificationOfLodgement (tbd)
• Update on ISO 20022 developments for cash handling messages

The detailed agenda can be downloaded below!

You can find the way to GS1 Germany using the following link: http://www.gs1-germany.de/common/downloads/all/1035_Journey_description_english.pdf

Should you have further questions or neeed assistance please contact David Ketszeri at david.ketszeri@gs1eu.org .

GS1 in Europe invited all the project members of the former GS1 in Europe eCom and EEP group to have a get together and focus meeting on May 27 and 28, 2010 at the GS1 Germany premises in Cologne, Germany (Knowledge Center). 

According to the decision of the GS1 in Europe Board in December 2009, EPC Network related topics (EPC data exchange related subjects) should be taken over by the GS1 in EU eCom Group.

This means a bit of change for all the project members as the two groups are now becoming one and there is a need to jointly refocus the so far distinct activities.

The high level agenda was:
• How do we efficiently work together
• Common priorities in the future
• EPC integration and common position of network and registry issues

Below you can download the detailed agenda of the meeting!

The Regional Board of GS1 in Europe held its general meeting on 26-27 April in Antwerp. Besides the usual points in agenda this time there was a workshop on the Future Value Chain 2020 facilitated by Capgemini.


The agenda and papers for discussion are available here:

The GS1 GO kindly invites all GS1 MOs for the next training, which will take place in Dijon, France, from 15th April till 16th April. Registration is now open on LEARN.


The topic of this training is AIDC & Traceability in Healthcare.  This is an advanced session hosted by Chuck Biss and Janice Kite that will be held on the site of the CHU (hospital).   A visit of the hospital and the free networking dinner on the first day are included in the programme.

This training will cover:

AIDC
• AIDC Application Standards
• GTIN Allocation Rules for Healthcare
• Healthcare specific configuration/packaging level definitions and samples
• Defining marking at each of the packaging levels
• Healthcare Trade Item Definitions
• Preferred Data Carriers (ALL that apply…why & where) for Healthcare items

Traceability

• Understanding GS1’ Global Traceability Standard
• Healthcare context dependencies
• Technical traceability information
• The GS1 Global Traceability Conformance Program

The intention is to make it informative and practical through interactive group discussions.
More information on this training is available on LEARN and you will find below the process for your students to register to this training.

The Regional Executive Committee held its meeting on 24 March in Warsaw hosted by GS1 Poland.

The documents for discussion are available here:

The 1st Share Best Practice Workshop was held on 26 February in Brussels. The session was dedicated to national solution providers programmes. 18 MOs have attended the workshop with the active involvement of the GS1 GO.

The presentations are available here: 

GS1 Swietzerland hosts the next Regional Executive Meeting on 13 January 2010.

All the available documents can be downloaded here!

The GS1 in Europe Regional Board held its last meeting for 2009 on 2-3 December in Prague.
All the relevant documents and presentations are available for download here!

Please note that the event materials are only for CEOs!

During the Forum once more, you will have a great opportunity to participate in both formal and informal meetings. Within the frame of the Forum, a broad scope of subjects will be discussed including presentations from our users and other external organizations. The Forum will be dedicated to new sectors and opportunities like Healthcare, T&L and Customs. Which issues naturally reflect on global as well as on regional level.

In course of the event the participants will also have the opportunity to exchange experiences, views, share best practices and learn from each other. To meet this purpose, we are trying to arrange the most valuable and relevant topics with keynote speakers!

For more details and to register please visit: www.gs1.eu/regionalforum!

Please note that only GS1 Staff are allowed to register!

GS1 in Europe held its last European Regional Board Meeting on 20-21 April in Monte Carlo. The meeting was hosted by GS1 France.
 
All the relevant papers from the meeting are available here: 

GS1 Germany hosted the Regional Executive Committee meeting on 10 June 2009 in Cologne.

All the relevant documents can be downloaded here:

GS1 in Europe held its last Regional Forum under the umbrella of the Global Forum 2009.
During the Regional Forum the following topics were presented: Global and regional updates, the launch of GS1 in Europe Roundtable (the new approach towards the European Commission), Update on Project EPAL, GTIN`s Black Market and Core Implementation Measures in Europe.

All of the presentations can be downloaded here:

GS1 in Europe organizes its next Regional Board meeting on the 17th of February (Tuesday) 2009 in Brussels. The meeting will be organized under the umbrella of the global Forum thus will be arranged in the very same venue, Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The meeting starts at 18.00 and we’re planning to finish at 19.00. (Meeting room: Klimt)

The aim of this short Board Meeting is mainly to get prepared for the Extraordinary General Assembly.
The second goal of the meeting is to agree and approve the official GS1 Management Board candidate nominated by GS1 in Europe.

The agenda and the available documents can be downloaded here:

GS1 in Europe’s project on consumer electronics, DACEI, organizes its next meeting on 11 February in Milan.
The meeting will be hosted by GS1 Italy.

For more details on the project please click here !

More details about the meeting can be downloaded here:
(Note: only for project members!)

The European Adoption Programme events have been a great success during the last years and we will also continue in 2009. Mainly for branding purposes, the EAP co-chairs have decided to rename the event series to the new name of ‘EPC in Action’.

We are pleased now to invite you to the first EPC in Action event organised by the European Adoption Programme:

Place: Issy Les Moulineaux (south-west of Paris), France
Date: 26th February 2009
Start: 09:30 (registration starts at 9:00)
End: 16:15

At the EPC in Action event you will benefit from:
- News and updates from GS1 EPCglobal
- Enduser Business Cases from: Carrefour, METRO, DHL, Kraft Foods and Mojix, BRIDGE and SToP projects and more
- Networking opportunities during coffee and lunch time

The final agenda will be available within the next days. Below you find some hotel recommendations nearby the event (maximum 25 minutes). Please note, that the hotels will be busy during this time of the year in this region and a fast booking is preferable.

The registration for this meeting is now available online: http://www.epcglobalinc.org/about/events/eap/

Meeting Venue:
Jardins de l’innovation
Orange Labs
38-40 rue du Général Leclerc
92130 Issy Les Moulineaux (south-west of Paris)
France

200 meters from the station Mairie d’Issy (final station of the metro number 12).

Should you have further questions, plese contact Stephane Pique here. 

Hotel recommendations:

As a key stakeholder  in  the Healthcare supply chain, we  invite you  to participate  in  the 13th global GS1 Healthcare Conference from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 March 2009 in the Orthopaedic Hospital Speising in Vienna, Austria.

Join us for the 13th global GS1 Healthcare Conference, for the first time in a hospital:

- Learn more about global standards for automatic identification, traceability and data synchronisation in Healthcare from experts during the plenary sessions
- Stay informed about industry and regulatory developments impacting the Healthcare supply chain from manufacturer to patient
- Raise your requirements for global standards in the work team sessions
- Network with your peers from all over the world throughout the conference
- Learn first hand from a leading Austrian hospital during the optional hospital tours in the Orthopädisches Spital Speising Hospital

For more details and registration please, visit the official website of the event! 

The last GS1 in Europe Traceability Workshop took place in Paris, 16-17 October 2008, at Radisson SAS Hotel at Disneyland Resort, as a continuation of previously held Traceability Workshops in Amsterdam (2004 and 2006).

As the traceability was a very „hot“ topic in Europe (and wider) several years ago, due mainly to emerging regulatory requirements, such as the EU Regulation 178/2002 in food law, it may appear that we have done our „traceability mission“ and that there is almost nothing new to add to this topic.

But, the reality is slightly different. Rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) as well as a number of new regulations, international new markets, rapidly growing cross-border trading, and, increasingly, well informed consumers, have greatly affected the business processes in supply chains and placed new challenges in front of traceability solutions.

Through this Workshop the attendants got:

• GS1 Traceability vision and updates, including:
       - Global Traceability Standard
       - Updates on all new projects, such as Global Traceability Conformance  programme and Traceability Implementation Guidelines
       - Updates on traceability activities in Healthcare and Fresh Produce
       - Updates on available technologies in traceability and their co-existence

• Updates on application of traceability confronted to new challenges, such as sustainability or cross-border trading

• Updates on traceability implementations and projects

• Opportunity to participate in working sessions, where you can express your needs and discuss your requirements, giving us the guidelines for the future traceability solutions development

• Opportunity to participate in on-site visit to a company and see how the GS1 standards works in practice
 
Presentations can be dowloaded here:

GS1 in Europe held its Regional Forum on 15-16 October 2008 in Paris with huge success.
During the Forum the participants had the great opportunity to participate in both formal and informal meetings. Within the frame of the Forum, a broad scope of subjects werw discussed including presentations from GS1 users and other external organizations. The Forum was dedicated to challenges and opportunities GS1 is facing at regional level. Naturally, all these issues usually reflect on global level too.
In course of the event the participants had the opportunity to exchange experiences, views and learn from each other.

The documents can be downloaded here! 

The last European Regional Executive Committee meeting was arranged on 26 June 2008 in Stockholm.

The relevant documents and papers are available here. 

As always, GS1 was actively involved in the ECR Europe Forum and provided several opportunities for all guests to get familiar with the different GS1 solutions supporting the business efficiency day by day all over the world.

•  Participants could explore the Auto-ID technologies of today and tomorrow supporting and increasing their business efficiency by attending “T2T - Increase your business efficiency by ensuring technology synergies” Breakout session.

• Our guests also could learn from the major global CPG players how GS1’s eBusiness solutions can improve your supply chain processes by taking part in the breakout session "Creating value through Global eBusiness solutions".

• By joining us at the Breakout session “Shopper dialogue: how mobile phones are bringing consumers and brands closer together" the audience could experience the value of creating a dialogue with consumers using advances in technology, Mobile phones, to understand their needs better.

• By taking part in the debate “Electronic Communication today and 2016” the guests could get an insight of today's hot topics concerning eCom.

• Last but leats all the interested visitors had the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about identification and communication standards in an easy and enjoyable way by attending crash course “Delivering consumer value enabled by technology standards”.

As usually GS1 was at your service during the whole event in the Market Place at the GS1 Booth.

For more details visit the ECR Europe Forum website!

The GSMP World Wide Spring Event 2008 took place in April 14-17, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium at the hotel Crowne Plaza City Centre.

The week was comprised of working groups and breakouts where the world’s supply and demand chain specialists together with users and GS1 standards experts stage the future of global business standards. Key GSMP stakeholders discussed opportunities, case studies and examples of how companies could benefit from implementing the GS1 global standards.

Whether it is BarCodes, Fresh Produce and GS1 DataBar, eCom and critical mass of business transactions, Data Synchronisation and Product Classification, Traceability, Mobile Commerce or new solutions expanding in new sectors, GS1 and its Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) are delivering results.

For more details visit the official website!

The latest developments of EPCglobal Network will be on the agenda of the International Conference for Industry and Academia organized by Elgar Fleisch (University of St. Gallen and ETH Zurich), Friedemann Mattern (ETH Zurich), and Sanjay Sarma (MIT). The conference will take place on 26-28 March in Zurich.
 
The term "Internet of Things" has come to describe a number of technologies and research disciplines that enable the Internet to reach out into the real world of physical objects. Technologies like RFID, short-range wireless communications, real-time localization and sensor networks are now becoming increasingly common, bringing the Internet of Things into commercial use. They foreshadow an exciting future that closely interlinks the physical world and cyberspace - a development that is not only relevant to researchers, but to corporations and individuals alike.

For more details click here.

The GS1 in Europe Regional Forum was organized as a Regional session within the frame of the GS1 Global Forum (18-22 February, 2008, Brussels).
The Regional Forum took place on the 20th of February (Wednesday) from 9:00 to 12.00.

During the Regional session the participants could hear about the ongoing and starting EU related/funded projects, and best practices at European MOs.
 
For last but not least it was a pleasure to have a guest speaker, Mr. Emilio Castrillejo from the EC. He supplied a general summation of the EC's vision of eProcurement/eGovernment and EDI interoperability and which types of organisations are likely to be important stakeholders at a European level.    

With more than 150 participants the Regional forum proved to be a success and served as an ideal opportunity to learn the latest developments in Europe!

The presentations are available to download here!

Thank you for making it happened!
GS1 in Europe

The Regional Executive Committee of GS1 in Europe hold her first meeting in 2008 in Barcelona on 11 January.

All the relevant and available documents and presentations can be downloaded from here. 

GS1 in Europe held her final Regional Board Meeting in 2008 in Belgrade. During the two days the European CEOs discussed and agreed on the activities and projects of GS1 in Europe for 2008.

All the relevant documents can be downloaded here:

The Regional Executive Committee of GS1 in Europe arrenged the last REC meeting in 2007 on 7 November in Amsterdam.

Documents can be downloaded from here 

The next GS1 in Europe Regional Board Meeting was held on 16 October 2007 in Berlin, just right before the Regional Forum.
GS1  Germany hosted the regional meeting and forum. Relevant Relevant documents can be downloaded below. 

The 2005 FEDIYMA,the European Federation of DIY Manufacturers, Forum proved to be an incredibly successful, thought provoking and major networking opportunity for the 330 delegates who attended. Every two years this Forum gathers more than 300 participants from 2001.
This year the Forum will be held in Barcelona in Spain, 13 and 14 September 2007.
The theme of this two-day forum is Sharing knowledge to sustain profitable growth.
For more details visit the website of FEDIYMA.

Under the umbrella of the GS1 in Europe Regional Forum a broad scope of subjects was discussed including even more speakers from GS1 user companies.
The Forum proved to be a success with more than 150 participants. As always all the attendees had the chance to exchange experiences and to discuss various issues concerning the different important European activities.

After providing the login data all the presentations are available and can be downloaded here.

Pictures and presentations from the ECR Europe Forum in Milan (2007).

GS1 in Europe arranged the next Regional Board Meeting within the frame of the ECR Europe Forum on 9 May, 2007, in Milan. All the relevant documents (agenda, final presentations/documents and minutes) can be downloaded from here.

 

GS1 Norway hosted the GS1 in Europe Regional Board Meeting on 21-22 March,2007, in Oslo. Relevant documents and all the presentations can be downloaded here.