Barcode with GTIN on products

The Global Trade Item Number or GTIN (formerly EAN code) is the identification code to uniquely identify the packaging of products worldwide.

The GTIN is usually encoded in a barcode. This allows it to be scanned and recognised by POS or warehouse management software. There are various barcode standards. Their use depends on the product and packaging type. The most commonly used barcodes in the FMCG & Foodservice sectors are the EAN-13 barcode for packaging that passes a POS and the ITF-14 barcode for outer packaging that is only scanned in a warehouse.

Jean-Pierre Attal

Products with an EAN-13 barcode

How to order GTINs or barcodes as a brand owner of the product?

How to encode the GTIN in a barcode?

How to manage your GTINs?

There are various GTIN and barcode standards.

Which barcode do you use for which packaging?

What should you do if certain product characteristics change? 

Can the GTIN be retained or must a new one be assigned?

As the brand owner of the product, you must register the GTIN and 6 product characteristics that form the identity card of the product with GS1.

Based on the GTIN, look up the identity card and the brand owner of the product.

Avoid expenses within the supply chain; have the scannability of the barcode verified free of charge before the product is put on the market.

Can’t find what you are looking for?

fmcg-foodservice@gs1belu.org

+32 2 229 18 88

Barcode with GTIN on products

Future of Barcodes

Order and manage GTINs & barcodes

Which barcode goes on which packaging?

New GTIN if the product changes?

Register GTIN in My Product Manager

Look up GTIN in Verified by GS1

Barcode conformity verification

Can’t find what you are looking for?

Contact the sector helpdesk