Which department should I apply for product barcode?

The product barcode is organized and implemented by China Article Coding Center. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standardization Administration Committee are the competent departments of the national commodity bar code work, and organize and manage the national commodity bar code work in a unified way.

Bar code is a graphic identifier that arranges a number of black bars and blanks with different widths according to certain coding rules to represent a group of information. Common bar codes are parallel lines composed of black bars (referred to as bars) and white bars (referred to as spaces) with great differences in reflectivity. Barcode can indicate the country of production, manufacturer, commodity name, production date, book classification number, starting and ending place, category and mailing date, and so on, so it has been widely used in many fields such as commodity circulation, book management, postal management, banking system and so on.

1. barcode application procedure: application department of China coding center.

1, the applicant goes through the formalities of the manufacturer identification code, and provides the business license of the enterprise as a legal person or its copy.

2. An official fee of 1.880 yuan is required to apply for commodity bar codes;

3. It takes about 1 working day to apply for a bar code;

4. Fill in the Registration Form for Members of China Commodity Barcode System, which can be directly filled in on the ANCC website.

5. After preliminary examination of the applicant's application materials, the qualified materials shall be examined and approved.

6. After receiving the application materials that have passed the preliminary examination and the fees paid by the applicant, if they really meet the specified requirements, they shall approve the registered manufacturer identification code to the applicant and complete the examination and approval procedures.

7. The application ends when the applicant receives the members of China Commodity Bar Code System.

Secondly, the common barcodes are mainly EAN barcodes and UPC barcodes.

EAN bar codes are currently widely used in many countries and regions around the world (except some areas in the United States and Canada);

UPC barcode should be applied in the United States and Canada, and EAN- 13 code must be applied before applying for UPC barcode.

Legal basis:

Measures for the Administration of Commodity Barcodes Article 4 The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (hereinafter referred to as the AQSIQ) and the National Standardization Administration Committee (hereinafter referred to as the National Standards Committee) are the competent departments in charge of the work of commodity barcodes nationwide, and organize and administer the work of commodity barcodes nationwide in a unified way. China article coding center (hereinafter referred to as the coding center) is the national commodity bar code working organization, responsible for the specific implementation of the national commodity bar code management.