Nordic Ediel Group


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Functional Description



      The purpose of this Message Handbook for Ediel is to ensure that information can be sent between parties in the power industry, in different countries, based on the same framework. The Message Handbook contains Implementation Guides for common used message types in the power industry and this Functional Description, which contains common descriptions for the different Implementation Guides. This includes relations between the different message types, use of codes and code lists, special conditions between the countries (such as use of time zones), terms and notation, use of header and trailer segments (UNB and UNZ) etc.
The contents of this guide is:

  1. Introduction

  2. Quality assurance

  3. Implementation guides and message types

  4. Terms and Notation

  5. Interchange agreement

  6. Important relations between the message types

  7. Syntax and service messages

  8. Service segments

  9. The EDIFACT CONTRL message

  10. Communication (X.400)

  11. Dictionary