This dating system is for Browning firearms manufactured after 1958. Most early Browning serial numbers contained no date or model information and can not be dated using this system. 1958 european dating system 1968 – The last digit of the year was used. Code “8” is duplicated for 1958 and 1968.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. 1953 The Statistics Division for the European Coal and Steel Community established. 1958 The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established. 1959 The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted.

First publication issued – on agricultural statistics. 1960 First Community Labour Force Survey. 1974 First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed. 1988 European Commission adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information. Council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.