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| | Barcodes (EAN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The European Article Numbering system (EAN) is a superset of UPC and was initially introduced in 1977 by an EAN association of EEC countries that included France, Germany, England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Holland and Austria. |
 | | EAN has two versions, EAN-13 and EAN-8, encoding 13 and 8 digits respectively. |
 | | The EAN system is under the overall direction of the International Article Numbering Association, based in Brussels, Belgium. |
| www.tkb-4u.com /code/barcode/ean.php (638 words) |
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