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SUMMARY:Annual meeting of the Central Bank GS1 User Group
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DESCRIPTION:Banca d’Italia hosted the 2022 meeting of the Central Bank GS
 1 User Group. Representatives of ten NCBs and five GS1 Member Organisati
 ons (MO) met in Rome to discuss various topics related to GS1 Standards 
 in cash logistics.\n\nAt the annual meeting on 27 June a wide variety of
  topics was discussed. The Secretary informed on a stocktaking on the us
 e of GS1 Standards at NCBs. The results are published on this website. T
 he Banque de France presented its new Notes-Held-To-Order and Coins-Held
 -To-Order schemes and explained how GS1 messages support the daily opera
 tions. The GS1 in Europe Cash Handling Group proposed a solution for GS1
  identification of security seals. The US Federal Reserve gave an overvi
 ew of its e-Manifest Readiness Program that enables banks\, Cash-in-Tran
 sit companies and IT solution providers of the cash sector to connect to
  the US Federal Reserve branches by means of GS1 Standards. The National
  Bank of Kazakhstan has started an initiative to modernise its cash cent
 res and conducts a feasibility study on the use of GS1 Standards in the 
 cash cycle. Croatia will join the Euro in 2023 and the National Bank of 
 Croatia has decided to connect to the Eurosystem’s application DECS (Dat
 a Exchange of Cash Services) by GS1 messages.\n\nOn 28 June the group`s 
 NCB participants visited of Banca d’Italia’s cash centre in Frascati. Th
 e NCB representatives were informed about the successful use of GS1 Stan
 dards in the Italian cash cycle and Banca d’Italia’s internal cash proce
 ssing. In the meeting after the visit the participants set the User Grou
 p’s work programme for the next year. This includes inter alia the ongoi
 ng search for a GS1 based solution on security seals and the setup of a 
 GSMP (Global Standards Management Process) for recycling messages. The U
 ser Group agreed to initiate the coordination of an extension of the DEC
 S messages with the ECB. Before closing the meeting the NCBs gave an ove
 rview on their work on CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). It is envis
 aged that the next meeting of the group will take place in Germany in 20
 23.
LOCATION:Rome\, Italy
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