GS1 Singapore is a non-profit council established in 1987 to implement and administer an international article numbering system (EANUCC System) in Singapore. GS1 Singapore has also being appointed by GS1 Global Office to be the sole presentative of EPCglobal Inc. in Singapore and is the only organisation authorised to provide EPCglobal Services to companies in Singapore. GS1 Singapore also undertakes to promote Electronic Commerce using GS1 XML Standard which is an efficient business tool for the automatic transmission of commercial data from one computer system to another directly.