Turkmenistan’s national organization for bar coding has been admitted to membership in the International organization GS1, and products made in Turkmenistan have been assigned a relevant international bar code, the Deputy Prime Minister for Trade and Business, Palvan Taganov, said.
This decision was taken unanimously by 111 member countries at the General Assembly of GS1 in Sydney (Australia). Products made in Turkmenistan will be marked with a bar code beginning with number 483, RIA Novosti cited Taganov as saying.
Turkmenistan’s national organization for bar coding is co-funded by the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan. Large-scale work is currently underway in Turkmenistan on introduction of the system of barcodes. Some 20 thousand types of goods manufactured by national producers have already been assigned relevant barcodes.
