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Summary

Organisation responsible for eInvoicing
  • Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (policy),
  • Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) (implementation and maintenance)
eInvoicing legislation
  • Legislation under revision
  • B2G eInvoicing is mandatory in Norway since 2011
eInvoicing is mandatory for
  • Submitting:
    • Economic operators
  • Receiving and processing:
    • Central authorities
eInvoicing standard(s)
  • Elektronisk handeslformat (Electronic Trade Format – EHF) – national format electronic invoice and credit notes, based on PEPPOL BIS
  • PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) – recommended to economic operators based outside of Norway for cross-border eInvoicing public administrations in Norway
eInvoicing PlatformPEPPOL transport infrastructure

 

 

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Full Country Sheet

Legislation

From 2011 onwards, all central authorities were required to receive invoices electronically. In 2012, this was extended to all Norwegian public administrations.

Additionally, central authorities require their suppliers to invoice them electronically using the EHF format from 2012.

The legislation for eInvoicing is being reviewed  and publication is foreseen to be published in 2017.

eInvoicing platform and eInvoicing management solutions

In Norway, public administrations use the PEPPOL network for receiving eInvoices. Solution providers operating PEPPOL access points often provide eInvoicing solutions for creating, submitting, transmitting, receiving and processing eInvoices. Both economic operators and public administrations rely on the service of these solutions providers. Additionally, Difi publishes a list of eInvoicing solution providers

Approach for receiving and processing eInvoices

Economic operators can submit eInvoices either by using their own internal ERP or accounting systems or by using approved eInvoicing solution providers[1]. The Norway eProcurement infrastructure is built around the PEPPOL standards and network, supplemented by specific national and EU-based systems.

OpenPEPPOL, the responsible for the PEPPOL infrastructure, operates the reception channel for eInvoices from economic operators. Difi, the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and e-Government, is the PEPPOL Authority in Norway. Difi authorises Norwegian-registered access points and operates the ELMA registry (PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher) containing the identities and receiving capabilities of all Norwegian public administrations and economic operators that communicate using the PEPPOL transport infrastructure.


[1] Anskaffelser.no (2016) How to send an electronic invoice, Accessed on 31.08.2016 on https://www.anskaffelser.no/verktoy/how-send-electronic-invoice 

Additional information

Difi also operates a test Access Point and validation services for business messages compliant with EHF/PEPPOL BIS. In order to facilitate technology adoption, Difi offers the Oxalis open source sample implementations for PEPPOL Access Points, which are widely used by solution providers across Europe