Seafood Module Commissioning Event
Commissiong events capture the creation of new traceable products within the supply chain. The seafood module extends the commissioning event with additional KDEs required for seafood products.
Event Profile
Seafood commissioning events are identified by the following event characteristics:
KDE | Value |
type | ObjectEvent |
action | ADD |
bizStep | commissioning |
disposition | active |
Seafood commissioning events must have at least one product with a productClassification of
seafood.KDE Requirements
The following properties are required on the root of a seafood commissioning event.
| KDE | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| eventID | A URN formatted universally unique ID (UUID) | urn:uuid:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx |
| action | The action says how an event relates to the lifecycle of the entity being described. ADD means the entity in question has been created or added to. OBSERVE means the entity in question has not been changed. DELETE means the entity in question has been removed from or destroyed altogether |
ADD, DELETE, OBSERVE |
| disposition | The disposition field of an event specifies the business condition of the event's objects, subsequent to the event. The disposition is assumed to hold true until another event indicates a change of disposition. A full list of disposition values and their definitions is available in the EPCIS Core Business Vocabulary | active |
| eventTime | A string value formatted as an ISO datetime | 2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| bizLocation | Facility where the immature animals were harvested; validated as a GLN with related master data | urn:epc:id:gln:1234567890123 |
| informationProvider | A URN formatted PGLN or GDST party identifier | urn:epc:sgln:08600031303.0.0, urn:gdst:example.org:party:example_prefix.0 |
| productOwner | A URN formatted PGLN or GDST party identifier | urn:epc:sgln:08600031303.0.0, urn:gdst:example.org:party:example_prefix.0 |
| readPoint | A readPoint object with an id property equal to a geo formatted coordinate pair |
geo:37.860236,-123.144697 |
| humanWelfarePolicy | Indicates whether a human welfare policy applies. Must be one of the allowed values (see below). | none, 3P, internal policy |
Instance Lot Master Data (ILMD) Requirements
The following KDEs are required on the ilmd property of a seafood commissioning event.
| KDE | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| productionMethodForFishAndSeafoodCode | Code for how the seafood was produced; must match a value from the GS1 code list ProductionMethodForFishAndSeafoodCode (version 15) | MARINE_FISHERY, AQUACULTURE |
Certificate Requirements
The following certificates are required in the certificationList of the ilmd property on a seafood commissioning event.
| Certification description | Certification type |
|---|---|
| Harvest certification | urn:gdst:certType:harvestCert |
| Human welfare policy standards | urn:gdst:certType:humanPolicy |
Certificates are required to have the following properties
| Certificate Property | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| certificationType | A URN formatted string defining the type of certificte | urn:gdst:certType:harvestCert |
| certificationAgency | The name of the certificate program owner | WHO |
| certificationStandard | The name of the standard associated with the certificate | WHO Human Decency Policy |
| certificationValue | An additional descriptor of the certificate if there are different quality values for the certificate | Quality class 4 |
| certificationIdentification | The ID of the certificate | 0987654321 |
Full JSON Example
{
"@context": [
"https://ref.gs1.org/standards/epcis/epcis-context.jsonld",
{
"gdst": "https://traceability-dialogue.org/epcis"
}
],
"type": "ObjectEvent",
"eventTime": "2026-04-19T01:58:39.4957023+00:00",
"eventTimeZoneOffset": "+00:00",
"eventID": "urn:uuid:a2cab12a-7c7d-419e-9349-9e2462163dbc",
"epcList": [],
"action": "ADD",
"bizStep": "commissioning",
"disposition": "active",
"readPoint": {
"id": "geo:37.7749,-122.4194"
},
"bizLocation": {
"id": "urn:gdst:example.org:location:loc:solution.hatchery"
},
"quantityList": [
{
"epcClass": "urn:gdst:example.org:product:lot:class:solution.fryling.lot1",
"quantity": 1000,
"uom": "KGM"
}
],
"ilmd": {
"cbvmda:productionMethodForFishAndSeafoodCode": "AQUACULTURE",
"cbvmda:certificationList": {
"certification": [
{
"gdst:certificationType": "urn:gdst:certType:harvestCert",
"certificationAgency": "Harvest Agency",
"certificationStandard": "Harvest Certificate Standard",
"certificationValue": "ghi789",
"certificationIdentification": "HARV-0003"
},
{
"gdst:certificationType": "urn:gdst:certType:humanPolicy",
"certificationAgency": "Human Policy Agency",
"certificationStandard": "Human Welfare Policy Standard",
"certificationValue": "pqr678",
"certificationIdentification": "HUMN-0006"
}
]
}
},
"gdst:productOwner": "urn:gdst:example.org:party:solution.hatchery",
"gdst:humanWelfarePolicy": "3p",
"cbvmda:informationProvider": "urn:gdst:example.org:party:solution.hatchery"
}