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A document that contains all the changes made to the standard.

August 09, 2024

Documents

  • Updated licence

September 29, 2023

Documents

  • Reworked data formats page to include various wored examples

September 22, 2023

Documents

  • Added blank Excel workbook to supporting files page
  • Added blank csvs for all core schema and all relationship lists to supporting files page and each schema page

September 7, 2023

Documents

  • Added example for Recycled Content Claims
  • Added example for Recyclability Claims
  • Added example for Certification Claims
  • Added example for Components
  • Added example for Complete Packaging End of Life
  • Added example for Complete Packaging

August 11, 2023

Documents

  • Added licence page so that users don’t need to navigate to Github
  • Improved homepage text regarding licencing
  • Improved sidebar navigation
  • Added licence to the footer
  • Added Relationship list, UUID and Single Source of Truth to Key Concepts page
  • Improved reability of Start Here Introduction
  • Fixed comestics typo to cosmetics in products types
  • Added product type descriptions
  • Various other typos

Data Fields

  • Harmonised all boolean field descriptions so that they all stated “Answer as: ‘TRUE’ for yes and ‘FALSE’ for no.”

July 14, 2023

Documents

  • Removed catalogue from the introduction area
  • Improved working about packaging levels
  • Reworked introduction
  • Improved key concepts page
  • Updated data flow
  • Improved Complete Packaging End of Life Route Relationship List
  • Added Controlled List information page
  • Improved the Goverance Page
  • Improved the branding to fit with the Open 3P brand guidelines

July 5, 2023

Documents

  • Removed banner detailing that the standard is about plastic packaging.
  • Added Apache Licence to homepage

July 4, 2023

Documents, Model, Data Fields

March 17, 2023

Documents

  • General improvements

March 10, 2023

Documents

  • Added versioning control so that there can be parrellell versions
  • Updated Identifiers page to include information regarding UUID

March 9, 2023

Documents

  • Variours changes to files for added function for versioning

February 7, 2023

Model

  • Changed component catologue to components

Documents

  • Added additional examples
  • Updated all data schema to based on changes

Data Fields

  • Changed tags to external identifiers

February 3, 2023

Model

  • Changed materials catologue to base materials
  • Added country to base materials

Documents

  • Added examples to base materials

January 20, 2023

Documents

  • Added schema images to all Data Specification pages
  • Added JSON example to all Data Specification pages
  • Added CSV examples
  • Added CSV templates

Data Fields

  • Fixed Complete Packaging Recycling Disruptor List

January 06, 2023

Documents

  • Neaten up tables so that the status column doesn’t go over multiple lines.
  • Updated schema image.
  • Fixed naming for material and material catalogue pages.
  • Added favicon.

December 20, 2022

Model

  • separate out materials and material catalogue -> move to the front of the process

Data Fields

  • Component Catalogue: add identifier to link materials

November 25, 2022

Documentation

  • Add definitions of recycling and reuse
  • Bug fixes, typos and tweaks throughout

Data Fields

  • Component Catalogue: branding added due to updated epr
  • Component Catalogue: loaned added due to epr
  • Multipack: outsideTier removed because encoded with tier level

Controlled Lists

  • add none option to drs

November 18, 2022

Documents

  • Complete Packaging: reformat component catalogue references by replacing independentComponent, previouslyAssembledComponent and allComponent with
  • Component Catalogue: created previouslyAssembledComponent as boolean and componentLink for addressing which components are attached when created.
  • Upload Schema

November 11, 2022

Documents

  • Component Catalogue: Update measurement guidelines.
  • Complete Packaging: Update measurement guidelines.

October 21, 2022

Documents

  • Complete Packaging: householdWaste turned into required field - representing the updated EPR

Controlled Lists

  • Completed Definitions for shapes
  • Completed Definitions for opacity
  • Completed Definitions for level
  • Removed tertiary and replaced with ‘shipment’ and ‘transit’ to reflect updated EPR for level

September 30, 2022

Documents

  • Fix typo in Key Concepts, Multipack
  • For measurements: Add rounding rule.
  • Change volume measurement to millilitres
  • For measurements: clarify why component measurements are slightly different to GS1’s complete packaging measurement guidance.

Data Fields

  • Complete Packaging: Added weightTolerance to the complete packaging

September 26, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Controlled list material function -> material purpose

Data Fields

  • Component Catalgoue: Moved level from component catalogue to load catalogue
  • Component Catalgoue: Removed importedUK since manufacturedCountry codes the same information
  • Component Catalogue: recycledContent description updated - Recycled Content as the minimum allowable recycled content
  • Component Catalogue: Added weightTolerance - definition to be updated.
  • Component Catalogue Materials: virginMaterial description updated - virigin material as the maximum allowable created for the component
  • Load: add the field loadIdentifier to link to the load catalogue

September 9, 2022

Data Fields

  • required fields updated
  • All:uploaded changed to update
  • All: update added
  • All: discontinued changed to discontinue
  • Component Catalogue Materials: added materialName
  • Component Catalgoue: added partOfMultipack
  • Multipack: packagingItems replaced completePackaging and component

Structural/Model Changes

  • Added downloadable csv files to Supporting Files

September 5, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Data Flow created
  • Introduction changed to Start Here; Key Concepts moved into Start Here and files updated to reflect these changes

Data Fields

  • required fields updated (still in process)

September 2, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Removal of Unique Components (fields moved to Component Catalogue or Complete Packaging)
  • Addition of Load Catalogue: load split into load and load catalogue

Data Fields

  • Component Catalgoue: format split into shape and function
  • Component Catalogue: Addition of level, reuseSystem, importedUK, and manufacturedCountry from unique components
  • Component Catalogue Materials: materialFunction turned into materialPurpose
  • Complete Packaging: Addition of componentContactWithProduct coverted from directContactWithProduct from unique components
  • All: tags converted into a dictionary; height, weight, depth, volume, and weight converted into numeric