You can check today, in about ten minutes, whether a resolver is ready for the Digital Product Passport. Since July 2026, six of the eight European standards framing the DPP are published, and they spell out what the infrastructure has to do. Here is the short version in plain language, and the questions worth asking…
Forty-eight countries, covering 88% of world GDP, are piloting the migration to 2D barcodes at retail point of sale. As QR codes move from campaign accessory to product infrastructure, the data they generate matters to more teams than marketing: trading, compliance, IT and legal all end up reading it. Yet most buying processes still evaluate…
Depuis mai 2026, Carrefour appose un QR Code augmenté GS1 sur 148 millions de bouteilles d’eau et sur une cinquantaine de produits à marque propre. À ce volume, compter les scans ne suffit plus : le directeur marketing doit pouvoir répondre à des questions de comité de direction. Quels pays lisent, sur quels appareils, dans…
Since 20 July 2026, you can open an account in the EU Digital Product Passport registry, test your product data against the official data models, and see exactly what registration will ask of your brand, before any obligation applies to your sector. The implementing regulation behind it, (EU) 2026/1778, entered into force on 6 August….
Le registre européen du Passeport numérique des produits est en ligne depuis le 20 juillet 2026, et son règlement d’exécution (UE) 2026/1778 est entré en vigueur le 6 août. Si vous gérez le packaging, la conformité ou la donnée produit d’une marque qui vend en Europe, vous avez probablement vu passer l’annonce sans savoir ce…
GS1 UK reports that 11% of its members are already live with 2D barcodes, and another 33% plan to join them within twelve months. Behind each of those migrations sits an unglamorous piece of infrastructure: the resolver, the service that turns a scanned GS1 Digital Link URI into a destination. And behind the resolver sits…
A QR code scan generates personal data on every read. The platform behind the code records the visitor’s IP address, an approximate location derived from it, a device type, a timestamp and the destination served. Under Article 4(1) of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, EU 2016/679), that combination relates to an identifiable natural person….
Uniqode is the QR code platform formerly known as Beaconstac, and it appears on most shortlists when a European enterprise reviews QR code suppliers. What decides those shortlists is rarely the feature grid. Legal wants to know where scan data is stored and under which jurisdiction. Finance wants the real contract cost in year two,…
GS1 Digital Link is the URL standard that lets a QR code take on the functions of the EAN-13 barcode. GS1 and major retailers including Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco have set end-2027 as the target date for replacing the traditional barcode with the GS1 Digital Link QR code at checkout. The same code reads at…
GS1 Sunrise 2027 is the global initiative coordinating the move from 1D barcodes to 2D codes at retail point of sale, with the soft target set at the end of 2027. Major grocery and pharmacy retailers including Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco and Albert Heijn have published acceptance timelines, and several large CPG brands have already moved…
