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Certified, compliant, compatible, approved: GS1 claims carry different weight. What each one proves, who stands behind it, and how to check before you sign.

GS1 operates a global resolver at id.gs1.org and describes it, in its own documentation, as the resolver of last resort. The phrase repays attention. It tells you that resolvers matter enough for the standards body to run a safety net, and that GS1 itself expects production traffic to live somewhere else, on infrastructure a brand…

Compatible, conforme, approuvé, certifié : ces mentions GS1 n’ont pas la même valeur. Ce que chacune prouve, qui la délivre, et comment la vérifier avant de signer.

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…

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….

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,…