Documents

Legislative regulations

ACT No. 309/2000 Coll., on defense standardization, codification and government quality assurance of products and services intended to ensure national defense and on amendments to the Trade Licensing Act

DECREE No. 5/2001 Coll., which establishes the requirements of the codification clause, models of application forms, notifications and overviews related to codification and a model certificate of competence to process a draft codification data on a product

NATO Standardization Agreements

STANAG 3150 Codification – Uniform System of Supply Classification

STANAG 3151 Codification – Uniform System of Item Identification

STANAG 4177 Codification – Uniform System of Data Acquisition

STANAG 4438 Codification – Uniform System of Dissemination of Data Associated with NATO Stock Numbers (NSN)

STANAG 4199 Codification – Uniform System of Exchange of Materiel Management Data

NATO Codification Publications

NATO Codification Publications are available on the AC 135 website.

ACodP-1

This is the main codification guideline. It contains a summary of binding principles, responsibilities, working procedures, data element definitions and methods of international data exchange. The publication is intended for codification offices of individual countries using the NATO Codification System (NCS).

ACodP-2 (H2)

The NATO Supply Group and Class Handbook ACodP-2 (The Allied Codification Publication No. 2) was created as a tool for the uniform classification of supply items within the NATO Codification System. It is based on the US Federal Classification Handbook 00-H2-1 (US Federal Classification Handbook). The publication establishes a Uniform System for the Classification of Military Equipment within all countries participating in the NATO Codification System.

The Column no. 6 (NATO Supply Class - NSC) data in the codification clause are provided in accordance with this manual. 

ACodP-3 (H6)

The Catalog of item names for codification according to NATO ACodP-3 (The Allied Codification Publication No. 3) serves as an internationally agreed dictionary of approved item names required for the preparation of each item identification. ACodP-3 contains approved and basic names, along with definitions of items included and excluded from a given Item Name Code (INC). The database also contains colloquial names. The publication is based on the US Federal Item Name Directory for Supply Cataloguing 00-H6.

According to this guide, columns 4 Approved/Unapproved Item Name and 5 Item Name Code (INC) are filled in the codification clause.