- Exporters of the agroalimentary products from the 01/01/2007 (in accordance with EC 178/2002 rule), the traceability of your goods is obligatory to enter the European market.
- To ensure the traceability of the products is a priority to respect the legal constraints and the pressure of the distributors.
- If you do not carry out the labelling of your goods (pallet, paperboard, parcel) according to international standards, it is extremely likely to be rejected by your European customer.
- Then contact GS1 Tunisia for the implementation of solutions of traceability.
- Request GS1 Tunisia for councils in order to conclude your project of “Traceability”
- For the exporters which are not still prepared for this expiry, GS1 Tunisia places at their disposal a Web tool to generate online pallets labels while they set up their own traceability solutions.

After having succeeded in setting up a system of traceability which fulfills the requirements of the American lawful framework as regards export of agroalimentary products (case of the halwa chamia), Mrs BEDOUI testified on the contribution of GS1 Tunisia as an organization of council and expertise and as a partner facilitating the marketing of her products in the United States through the delivery of UPC codes answering valid UCC standards in the United States and Canada. It also greeted the effectiveness and the ergonomics of the E Learning service of GS1, which she made use of. Members benefit from a training in certifying line and local training courses, on GS1 standards, on tools of traceability and e-com. She finally showed the utility of the E Learning service deployed by GS1 Tunisia to have a clear vision on the concept of traceability and the supply chain as well as on the different standards of identification and the symbolic systems of labelling: necessary knowledge to be able to prospect the external markets, to optimize its offer and to perennialize its activity.
Training seminar , CEPEX December 22, 2006             

Managing the company "DALIAS 'S Confectioneries", Mrs. ALIA BELLILE succeeded in gaining the confidence of the largest brand names of the distribution in Europe by setting up a complete and effective solution of traceability from the raw material to the delivery of finished products. With this intention, she requested GS1 Tunisia to train her personnel with the use of coding standards and marking. In addition, GS1 Tunisia exempted a service of technical aid to the profit of DALIAS' S Confectioneries for the implementation of a labelling software and to guarantee the optimal use of the tool functionalities …
Training seminar Consultant, CEPEX December 8, 2006

With 2 million 200.000 tons of products commercialized per annum and a turnover of 8 billion 200 million euros, the sector of deep-frozen approved an official format to mark the elementary logistic units, using UCC/EAN-128 symbology. Actors of this sector: manufacturers, traders, distributors, logisticians thus met with GS1 France to inform about their needs, in term of electronic data interchanges, through messages covering main information flows, and integrating specificities of deep-frozen and ice for the marking of forwarding units, in the handbook Logistic Applications of EAN standards to facilitate the reception of goods and their traceability. This format contains the identification of the logistic unit, the batch number, the deadline (optimal use) and the net weight in the case of articles with variable weight. Source Les Enjeux - Fabienne Gougeon.

After having implemented data-processing tools, marking solutions and real-time acquisition batch number systems, the large scale distribution must reflect on the means of tracing the last chain link: the consumer. ..Read article

Specialized in fresh pastry making under controlled atmosphere (7 days DLC “deadline”), “Pâti Prestige” (2 sites, 116 employees, 10 M euros) manufactures short series and delivers its customers allotted batches. The company chose this solution, in order to apply a complete traceability of its production chain ...Read article

The RSS (Reduced Space Symbology) was adopted by the whole of GS1 organizations in order to identify large consumption products in store (from 2010). Smaller than an EAN-13 or containing more information according to its alternatives, the RSS promises real prospects for application in France.