EANCOM® PART I : EANCOM® & EDIFACT


7. INTERNATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Within data elements in several EANCOM® segments reference is made to international (i.e. United Nations (UN) and International Standards Organisation (ISO)) recommendations. These recommendations provide codes for use in multiple sectors and applications which include, but are not restricted to, EDI (for examples, the ISO country codes).

Below you will find a table detailing the international recommendations catered for in EANCOM® and the EANCOM® segments where they are communicated. At the time of publication the codes listed in EANCOM® for international recommendations are based on the latest available version. The identification of the year of release or latest version of each recommendation listed below may be obtained from your national standards or trade facilitation body.

International Recommendation

Deal with what

EANCOM® Segment

UN REC 20

Measure units

DGS - MEA - PRI - QTY

UN REC 19

Modes of transport

FTX - IMD

ISO 3166

Country codes

EQD - FII - NAD - SGP

ISO 4217

Currency codes

CUX - MOA

ISO 639

Languages

CNI - DOC - FTX - IMD

UN REC 24

Harmonisation of transport status codes

STS

  

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