PD CEN IS0/TS 16791:2020 Health informatics Reguirements for international machine-readable coding of medicinal product package identifiers bsi. PDCENIS0/TS16791:2020 PUBLISHEDDOCUMENT National foreword ThisPublishedDocumentistheUKimplementationof CENIS0/TS16791:2020.ItisidenticaltoIS0/TS16791:2020.It supersedesPDCENISO/TS16791:2015,which is withdrawn. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IST/35, Health informatics. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on requesttoits committeemanager. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions ofa contract.Usersareresponsibleforits correctapplication. The British Standards Institution 2020 Published by BSI Standards Limited 2020 ISBN9780539005929 ICS 35.240.80 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This Published Document was published under the authority of the StandardsPolicyandStrategyCommitteeon31October2020. Amendments/corrigendaissuedsincepublication Date Textaffected PDCENIS0/TS16791:2020 CEN IS0/TS 16791 TECHNICALSPECIFICATION SPECIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION October 2020 ICS 35.240.80 SupersedesCENIS0/TS16791:2015 English Version Health informatics - Requirements for international machine-readable coding of medicinal product package identifiers (IS0/TS 16791:2020) Informatique de santé - Exigences pour une Medizinische Informatik - Anforderungen fur identification internationale, lisible par capture internationale maschinenlesbare Kodierungen von automatique, des produits medicinaux (ISo/TS Identifikatoren fur Arzneimittelpackungen (ISo/TS 16791:2020) 16791:2020) This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 7 September 2020for provisional application. The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard. CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS parallel to the CEN/TS) until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. cen EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMITE EUROPEENDENORMALISATION EUROPAISCHES KOMITEEFURNORMUNG CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels 2020CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref.No.CENISO/TS16791:2020E worldwide for CEN national Members.