Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 Article 23

Human-readable code

Article 23

1. Economic operators shall ensure that each data carrier includes a human-readable code that enables electronic access to the information related to the unique identifiers stored in the repositories system. 2. Where the dimensions of the packaging allow, the human-readable code shall be adjacent to the optical data carrier carrying the unique identifier.

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