The Centre for Identification Systems offers consumers information system services for maintaining basic information about goods produced and sold on the territory of the Republic of Belarus for the purposes of automated accounting in commodity distribution networks and conducting e-commerce processes under an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Bank of electronic passports of goods (ePASS) is an information system for maintaining basic information about goods produced and sold on the territory of the Republic of Belarus for the purposes of automated accounting in commodity distribution networks and conducting e-commerce processes.

ePASS ensures the formation and maintenance of a data bank containing descriptions of goods (products) produced and sold in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, compiled in accordance with international standards in the field of electronic commerce.

Detailed information about ePASS is available on the website www.epass.by. (in Russian)

ePASS integrates:
- with the depository of bar codes of the GS1 system of Belarus (owner - scientific and engineering republican unitary enterprise "Interindustry Scientific and Practical Center for Identification Systems and Electronic Business Transactions" of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) in terms of obtaining names and identification codes of goods and e-commerce entities. The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) assigned to a unit of goods (products) by the GS1 system of Belarus, which is part of the international GS1 system, is used as a product identifier. The Global Location Number (GLN) assigned by the GS1 system of Belarus is also used as an identifier of an e-commerce subject, intended to uniquely identify a registered user of the GS1 system of Belarus, its structural (technological) divisions or a certain set of data about user identification objects;
- with data banks of the national conformity assessment system of the Republic of Belarus (owner - State Committee for Standardization), as well as when creating the necessary organizational and technical conditions with international systems for confirming the safety and quality of goods (products), including those created within the Customs Union, in terms of obtaining information about the availability of documents confirming their safety and quality. The identifiers (numbers, validity periods and other details) of documents confirming the safety and quality of goods (products) valid in the relevant systems are used as identifiers of information objects;
- with a depository of bar codes of imported products;
- with international and foreign resources on product range and information systems operating on their basis.

Enterprises that have entered into a tripartite agreement for the provision of services of the GS1 system of Belarus in accordance with the Regulations on commodity numbering and bar coding of goods (products) in the Republic of Belarus, approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated May 24, 2000 No. 748, receive access for the period of validity of the agreement via the Internet to the ePASS system. Access is granted to an authorized employee upon request (in Russian).

With the ePASS.MOBILe mobile application, information about goods from the ePASS database is now available to every consumer.

ePASS.MOBILe scans the bar code, accesses ePASS (Internet connection required), finds in it a product with the corresponding code, and displays basic information about the product.

ePASS.MOBILe displays the most frequently requested product description attributes.

The ePASS.MOBILe information mobile application is available for Android (in Russian) and iOS (in Russian) users.

The main advantage is that trading partners connected to ePASS (manufacturers of goods, their importers, wholesale and retail intermediaries, electronic trading platforms, exchanges, online stores, EDI providers, etc.) use uniform standardized descriptions of goods in business -processes, incl. and XML-formats of electronic documents (orders - ORDERS, invoices - INVOIC, invoices - DESADV, etc.), without wasting time and money on the coordination of formats, exchange protocols, elimination of manual input errors, etc.

A prerequisite for working with ePASS is that the user and his products have identifiers of the international system of open standards GS1:
* Global Location Number (GLN);
* The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), commonly used as a barcode on an item.

Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise "Intersectoral Scientific and Practical Center for Identification Systems and Electronic Business Operations" (State Enterprise "Centre for Identification Systems") was established in 2006 as a specialized organization in the field of automatic identification technologies and electronic business operations.

The "Centre for Identification Systems" is:
- the lead organization in the Republic of Belarus for the scientific and methodological support of the creation and operation of information resources (systems) on goods (products), their automatic identification, and the provision of electronic document flow in distribution networks and e-commerce processes;
- the owner and operator of the Interdepartmental Distributed Information System "Databank of Electronic Product Passports"—the republican system of basic information (master data) on goods produced and sold in Belarus for the purposes of automated accounting in distribution networks and e-commerce processes;
- an organization responsible for the formation and maintenance of a republican register of standard electronic messages and documents that facilitate electronic data exchange during e-commerce processes;
- an authorized organization for issuing an electronic document management operator (EDI provider) certificate, ensuring the transmission and receipt of electronic waybills, as well as transport (shipping) documents and/or other documents confirming the movement of goods in mutual trade between the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union;
- an accredited scientific organization developing a national system of automatic identification and electronic commerce based on international standards, which ensures the creation, development, and maintenance of state, industry, and corporate information systems for identification, traceability, and electronic data exchange;
- a member of the GS1 Belarusian Automatic Identification Association;
- a member of the Infopark Scientific and Technological Association;
- a member of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a bona fide partner of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
- a resident of the High Technologies Park;
- a developer and systems integrator of automated information systems (AIS) at the state, industry, and corporate levels, specialized software, promotes standardization in its core business, and conducts scientific research.

State Enterprise "Centre for Identification Systems":
- Heads the National Technical Committee for Standardization in Automatic Identification Technologies and Electronic Business – TC BY 24 "Identification" (development of standards in automatic identification and electronic data exchange);
- Collaborates with leading universities and participates in the training of undergraduate and graduate students in information technology. The enterprise operates a branch of the Department of Information Radio Technologies of the Faculty of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. The branch also trains graduate students.
- operates an accredited testing laboratory to verify the legality of use and quality of barcode symbols for all product groups, both those produced within the Customs Union (with the EAC marking) and those imported from third countries, and their subsequent registration in retail chains of the Republic of Belarus;
- develops and consults on the creation and modernization of automated information systems for various purposes based on international standards and recommendations in the field of automatic identification and e-business, including barcoding technologies, radio frequency identification, and integration solutions.

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