GS1 Bulgaria hosted the GS1 in Europe Regional Board Meeting

In Sofia, the GS1 in Europe Regional Board Meeting was held. The CEOs of the 28 national GS1 organisations in Europe took part in the meeting. For the first time the event was hosted by the GS1 Bulgaria Council with BCCI.

Miguel Lopera, President and Chief Executive Officer of GS1 also took part in the meeting. The President of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and Chairman of the GS1 Bulgaria Council Tsvetan Simeonov welcomed the participants in the forum.

The Sofia meeting was crucial for managing the activity of GS1 in Europe. In addition to the 2012 Financial Report and the election of a new Regional Executive Board, during the first day of the meeting important issues related to the participation of GS1 in Europe in the ECR (Efficient Consumer Response) initiative of the supply chain participants in Europe were discussed (more information about the initiative is available here). The issue of using the GTIN of products which have gone out of production was also discussed. According to the organization the reuse of those numbers should not be allowed.

The work and progress under projects for the use of radiofrequency technology and GS1 standards for the tracing of wagons was reported, as well as of the GS1 Logger for Staff (for iPhone) application which aims to help filtering and finding unauthorized GS1 company prefixes and GS1 identification numbers, and GS1 standards in banking.