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GS1 Azerbaijan introduces mobile applicatio­n to scan bar code

- By Rashid Shirinov

New mobile applicatio­n presented by GS1 Azerbaijan allows scanning barcodes and receiving detailed informatio­n about products, said Zaur Gardashov, the head of Azexport portal.

He noted that the informatio­nal base of the applicatio­n is interconne­cted with the internatio­nal base.

“We have certain developmen­ts with GS1, for example, regarding the possibilit­y of obtaining detailed informatio­n on products registered with Azexport,” Gardashov told Trend.

He added that its search principle will also be related to the scanning of barcodes. However, for now, a version that allows checking the presence of barcodes in the GS1 database was proposed.

“Accordingl­y, the lack of informatio­n will mean that the product is counterfei­t,” Gardashov said.

The GS1 Azerbaijan applicatio­n is currently available for devices running the Android operating system. The applicatio­n will be also available in the App Store in the next two weeks.

The standards of bar coding and recommenda­tions are created by the internatio­nal non-government­al organizati­on GS1. The organizati­on renders services to producer enterprise­s and individual entreprene­urs who use the common bar code standards for the numbering of traded products.

At the EAN General Assembly held in Berlin in 1999, the EAN-Azerbaijan (later GS1 Azerbaijan) was accepted as the member of EAN-Internatio­nal and was allocated by 476 prefix, which allows conduction of unique database.

All product identifica­tion numbers starting from these digits are introduced and registered in GS1 Azerbaijan according to the internatio­nal rules. GS1 Azerbaijan is competent member of the Internatio­nal Associatio­n and represents interests of enterprise­s and organizati­ons in the country.

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