1. CEF eInvoicing Stakeholder Day 2016 Brussels, 1 December
Irena Riviere-Osipov, Policy Officer in charge of eInvoicing, UNIT G4
DG GROW

2. Overview of CEF eInvoicing and policy objectives

3. From the Directive to present
Directive 2014/55/EU on eInvoicing in public procurement calls for:
European eInvoicing standard (EN) to be developed and tested by CEN
All CAs and CEs in the EU obliged to receive and process electronic invoices compliant with the new standard by latest 27 November 2019
BUT:
Minimum of 18 months from the publication of the EN in the Publication Office
Possibility to postpone deadline for regional and local authorities for a further 12 months, when a Member State requires
Scope
Only invoices covered by EU Public Procurement Directives
Only invoices submitted to the public sector
Covers all public authorities (national, regional, local)

4. What is going on
CEN TC 434 and several WG: Semantic data model, list of syntaxes and other ancillary deliverables:
guidelines on transmission
guidelines on country extensions
syntax bindings
Guidelines at transmission level
Extension methodology
Test methodology and test results
Over 600 comments received on the Semantic
Data Model in the CEN public inquiry
Different positions on the syntaxes issues:
from 5 to 1
Call for grants 2016: up to 15 December 2016

5. eInvoicing: Common Goals towards the Directive 2014/55/EU
TC 434 agreement on a limited list of syntaxes: common objective achieved (only two)
Semantic model stable
Need to keep timing of the Directive

6. CEF eInvoicing: Objectives for 2017
eInvoicing readiness checker and 2017 State of play report launched
(January – February)
The road to the European Standard
(February onwards)
The launch of the eInvoicing Standard
(Summer onwards)
Make the eInvoicing maturity self- assessment tool & Knowledge Base available (profile pages and country sheets)
Raise awareness of eInvoicing Directive and services made available via CEF eInvoicing
Help stakeholders prepare
Raise awareness of eInvoicing Standard
Promote 2017 eInvoicing call for grants
Objectives
Go-live of the eInvoicing readiness checker by January 2017
Launch of 2017 state of play report process
Communication campaign on eInvoicing Directive and CEF services (nationally-focused webinars, social media campaign and direct mailing)
Event on the European Standard on eInvoicing
Communication campaign on the eInvoicing standard (information sessions)
EC activities

7. Interested to find out more?
DG GROW
Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DIGIT
Directorate-General for Informatics
DG CONNECT
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
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