The European Commission has just concluded the final conference on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as the last part of the series of consultation initiatives in Europe. The conference took place in Brussels today was also broadcasted live through Web Streaming. With an emphasis on the policy issues rather than the technical ones, the conference was mostly attended by European Commission officials and the members of the European Parliament.



From Asia, Professor Ryo Imura, the only Asian speaker presenting at the conference, talked about a few RFID applications in the Japanese Ubiquitous Information Society, such as RFID projects that involve children and RFID item-level tagging applications. The conclusions of his presentation include the importance of establishing business cases, the need for cost-sharing mechanism in RFID supply chain implementation and building the awareness of public and consumers of RFID.

The European Commission expects to deliver the results of the Europe-wide public consultation by December 2006.


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