This European Prestandard specifies the requirements for labels containing human readable and bar coded information for fixing to steel products for the purpose of dispatch, transport and reception. It provides for two formats of label, that is, a large and small label the application of which depends on the type, size and shape of the steel product. Data areas are defined and the associated information specified both as to content and characters to be used and where expressed in bar code the bar code identifiers and symbology are specified.
2 Normative references
This European Prestandard incorporates by dated or undated reference provisions from other publications. These normative references are listed as follows. For dated reference subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications apply to this European Prestandard only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies.
EN 10079 Definition of steel products
EN 27372 Trade data interchange : trade data elements directory (ISO 7372:1986)
EN XXXX1 Bar code symbology. Code 39
EN XXXX2 Bar code quality
ISO 3098 Technical drawings - Lettering
Part 1 : Currently used characters