1.DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA FIELD:

Fixed size,

8 characters Essential filling

2. DATA ELEMENT DEFINITION:

Event date in normalized form.

3. NOTES:

a) The event date is recorded according to ISO 8601:1988 standard, meaning the year in the first four digits, the 1st month in the following two digits, and the first day of the event in the last two digits.

b) If the date refers to a time period, record the first day of the period.

c) Information recording in this field is conditional upon filling the Event Date field.

EXAMPLES:

a) 20220914

b) 20190000