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Legislation

The transposition of the European Directive on eInvoicing (2014/55/EU) into Greek law was adopted in the first quarter of 2019 (4601/2019). The transposition aligns with the text and scope of the Directive and mandates the formation of two groups to further work on the details regarding the adoption of the semantic model of eInvoice and the architecture of eInvoicing in Greece.  

eInvoicing platform and eInvoicing management solutions

Further to a successful application to the 2016 CEF Telecom Call for eInvoicing, funding was allocated to

a consortium of three public agencies, three private entities and a university to implement an interoperable eInvoicing infrastructure in Greece. The Interoperable eInvoicing in Greece (GRinv) programme

will implement the PEPPOL ‘four corner model’ to process B2G eInvoices. It

started in the autumn of 2017 and will

end in May 2019.

The project consortium, composed of three public agencies and several private entities, aims to enable economic operators to submit and receive eInvoices for the purpose of B2G contract execution via the ESIDIS eProcurement system. The entities include the General Secretariat of Digital Policy which has the mandate to coordinate all digital Society actions in the public Sector from a strategic perspective, General Secretariat of Commerce and Consumer Protection which operates ESIDIS.Furthermore, the ESIDIS eProcurement system which will be enabled to receive and process standardised eInvoices for the purposes of contract execution, and the General Secretariat of Information Systems will implement a which operates General Accounting Office of State (GAOS) and its back-office system called GAOS, allowing contracting authorities will be enabled to handle standardised standardized eInvoices for the purposes of expenses expense approval, processing processin and payment.

Private eInvoicing Service Providers will adapt their systems for creating eInvoices according to the European Norm and submitting them through eDelivery.

The consortium is being coordinated by the University of Piraeus (department of Digital Systems) with strong technical expertise in the domain of eInvoicing through its involvement and active participation in the PEPPOL and the e-SENS LSPs. 

Approach for receiving and processing eInvoices

Currently, there is no standardised approach to eInvoicing in Greece. The electronic submission of invoices is not mandatory. There are currently several private eInvoicing service providers, such as IMPACT, RETAIL-LINK, SINGULARLOGIC, which allow economic operators to submit their invoices to contracting authorities electronically. Economic operators can submit their eInvoices using various standards. The Greek government authorities

taking also into account the work done in GRinv are working on evaluating best practices on eInvoicing in Europe. They are considering of adopting the PEPPOL network and 4 corner model.