EAN-UCC

EAN/UCC heritage. See official source.

Definition

EAN/UCC — historical name of the family of barcodes and identifiers managed jointly by EAN International and Uniform Code Council, before the merger into GS1 (2005). EAN.UCC = GS1.

Origin

EAN International was created in 1977 in Europe; the Uniform Code Council in the US in 1973. The 2005 merger under the GS1 name unified naming: EAN-13 → GTIN-13, EAN-14 → GTIN-14, UCC-12 → GTIN-12.

Use

EAN/UCC references still appear in some historical commercial documents and product sheets; any new deployment uses GTIN.

Related

• GTIN — see entry.
• ECC EAN — see entry.
• GS1 EANCOM — see entry.