Circular Letter No. 2926 — Includes "Maturity Factor" in the Barcode of the CADOC 24044-4 Collection Form

CIRCULAR LETTER NO. 002926

Includes "maturity factor" in the barcode of the CADOC 24044-4 Collection Form.

Given the need to improve the CADOC 24044-4 Collection Form, established by Circular Letter No. 2,414, of October 7, 1993, its specifications are amended, including the "maturity factor" in the barcode, in accordance with the instructions attached, with validity starting from September 1, 2000.

2. The presence of "0000" in the "maturity factor" field of the digitizable line of the collection form indicates that the barcode does not contain the maturity factor.

3. The Operator of the Check and Other Papers Clearing Service (SCCOP) is tasked with disseminating the routines necessary to comply with the provisions of this Circular Letter.

4. This Circular Letter enters into force on the date of its publication.

5. Circular Letter No. 2,790, of March 4, 1998, is revoked.

Brasilia, July 24, 2000.

Banking Operations Department

Jose Antonio Marciano
Unit Head, acting

CADOC 24044-4 Collection Form

SPECIFICATIONS

01 - Format: in blocked paths, continuous form or paper sheet, which may contain micro-perforation between the clearing slip and the drawee's receipt.

02 - Paper grammage: minimum of 50 g/m2.

03 - Dimensions:

a) Clearing Slip: 95 to 108 mm in height by 170 to 216 mm in length; b) Drawee's Receipt: at the discretion of the ceding client, conditioned upon approval by the ceding bank or recipient.

04 - Number of paths or parts - two, being:

a) Clearing Slip; b) Drawee's Receipt.

05 - Arrangement of paths or parts:

a) Blocked paths: the clearing slip must be the first path b) Continuous form or paper sheet: the clearing slip must be the lower part.

06 - Path/printing color:

a) white background/blue printing; or b) white background/black printing.

FILLING INSTRUCTIONS

01 - Mandatory fields - location:

a) Drawee's Receipt: at the discretion of each bank. b) Clearing Slip:

I - IDENTIFICATION: in the upper left part - identification of the destination bank, which may contain its logo and, to the right of the bank's name, its clearing code number/DV, in bold;

Note: the code number with a character of 5 mm and strokes or threads of 1.2 mm.

II - NUMERIC REPRESENTATION: in the upper right part - re- presentation of the numeric (digitizable line) content of the barcode, valid for processing the collection form when its digitization is necessary, with the following characteristics

• characters: from 3.5 mm to 4 mm in height;
• strokes or threads: with 0.3 mm thickness;
• fields: five, as discriminated below, separated by
  space equivalent to one character:

1st Field - composed of: bank code (positions 1 to 3 of the barcode), currency code (position 4 of the barcode), the first five positions of the free field (positions 20 to 24 of the barcode) and check digit of this field;

2nd Field - composed of positions 6 to 15 of the free field (positions 25 to 34 of the barcode) and check digit of this field;

3rd Field - composed of positions 16 to 25 of the free field (positions 35 to 44 of the barcode) and check digit of this field;

4th Field - general check digit of the barcode (position 5 of the barcode); and

5th Field - composed of the "maturity factor" (posi- tions 6 to 9 of the barcode) and the nominal value of the document (positions 10 to 19 of the barcode), with the inclusion of zeros between them until they compose 14 posi- tions of the field and without editing (without point or comma). When it is a collection form without discrimination of the value in the barcode, the representation must be with zeros.

Note 1: the first three fields must be edited, after the first five positions, with a point.

Note 2: the data of the numeric representation do not appear in the same order as the barcode, but rather according to the sequence described above.

Note 3: the check digits referring to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd fields are not represented in the barcode.

III - PRINTING FRAME:

• presents grid/names of fields as per
  attached model;
• the size of each field (number of positions) may
  vary, as long as the same arrangement of the model and the minimum dimensions of the form are respected;
• unused fields may remain without indication;
• if the "WALLET" field is not used, it may be
  incorporated into the "BANK USE" field.

IV - AUTHENTICATION: in the lower part, to the right, below the printing frame.

V - BARCODE: in the lower part, to the left, below the printing frame, mandatory filling, with the following characteristics:

• Type: "interleaved 2 of 5", where "2 of 5" means
  that 5 bars define 1 character, two of them are long bars, and "interleaved" means that the spaces between bars also have meaning, in a manner analogous to the bars.

• Position: 12 mm from the lower margin of the slip to the
  center of the barcode and 5 mm from the left edge of the form to the start of the barcode (quiet zone).

• Dimension: 103 mm in length by 13 mm in height.

• "Layout and content":

POSITION SIZE PICTURE CONTENT
01 - 03 3 9 (3) Bank Identification 04 - 04 1 9 Currency Code (9 - real) 05 - 05 1 9 General Check Digit of the barcode 06 - 09 4 9 Maturity Factor 10 - 19 10 9 (8) V99 Document Value 20 - 44 25 9(25) FREE FIELD.

Note 1: the general check digit of the barcode, at position "5", is calculated as follows:

• modulo "11", from 2 to 9, using digit 1 for the
  remainders 0, 10 or 1;
• consider positions 1 to 4 and 6 to 44, starting
  from position 44 and skipping position 5.

Note 2: without prejudice to the indication on the front, the barcode may also be indicated on the upper right part of the back of the Clearing Slip.

• Path Identification: below the
  barcode, maximum dimension of 2 mm and strokes or threads of
  0.3 mm with the expression "Clearing Slip".