This standard specifies the commercial packaging of consumable stores when no Military Packaging Level or Code is stipulated, and requires a storage period that will not exceed one year world-wide in frost free permanent buildings.

This standard covers the packaging of the following types of materiel that can be described as consumable items or commonality items with a Primary Packaged Quantities (PPQ's) that are single, multiple, up to and including 5 kg mass. This includes the following list which is not exhaustive;

Bolts, capacitors, collars, cleats, clips fasteners, compression springs, contact caps, covers, diodes, fuses, gaskets, grommets, helical springs, identification plates, instruction plates, knobs, lugs, nails, pins, resistors, retaining rings, rivets, seals, screws, shafts, spindles, terminals, torsion springs, transistors, washers.

This standard does not cover the packaging of items identified as being electrostatic-discharge sensitive devices or items sensitive to magnetic fields.