What are the reasons to have an eInvoicing Pioneer Group?
The eInvoicing Advisory Group for the eInvoicing Readiness Checker proved to be a successful experience of co-creation involving eInvoicing stakeholders and the European Commission to achieve a service that responded to stakeholders' needs.
Now that the eInvoicing Readiness Checker is live, it is considered useful to replicate the model whereby a motivated group of eInvoicing stakeholders meet to provide a range of feedback to the European Commission on eInvoicing matters and to drive activities to support the launch of the European Standard on eInvoicing as well as to support the compliance with Directive 2014/55/EU.
The purpose of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group will be to identify different national and sector specific stakeholders (relevant national & sub-national authorities with responsibility for eInvoicing) to engage in different targeted activities such as the following ongoing ones:
- The promotion of the eInvoicing Readiness Checker throughout national eInvoicing networks;
- The participation in the 2017 Study on the State of play of B2G eInvoicing in public procurement online survey building on the previous work that was done as part of the 2016 Study on the State of play of B2G eInvoicing in public procurement.
What could be the relevant activities of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group?
The relevant activities of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group could broadly include the following:
To help the CEF Stakleholder Management Office (SMO) to identify different national (relevant national & sub-national authorities with responsibility for eInvoicing) and sector specific stakeholders in order to engage those identified stakeholders in different targeted activities;
To provide support to the CEF eInvoicing work programme;
To support the organisation and provide input, where relevant, for the CEF eInvoicing implementation workshops;
To provide suggestions for communication and dissemination channels for CEF eInvoicing activities;
To provide input for the CEF eInvoicing events, meetings and workshops;
To become "Ambassadors" for CEF eInvoicing;
To promote 'New Ways of Working' such as the use of CEF DIGITAL eInvoicing User Community.
How should the eInvoicing Pioneer Group be organised?
- CEF SMO will organise monthly (remote) meetings with the members of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group;
- The discussions will be based on the agenda distributed before the meeting. The agenda of the launch meeting of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group will be the following:
- Introduction;
- Presentation of the objectives of the eInvoicing Pioneer Group;
- Overview of the CEF SMO eInvoicing Stakeholder engagement approach for 2017;
- Feedback on experience of the 2017 Study on the State of play of B2G eInvoicing in public procurement ;
- Discussion on stakeholders' needs in anticipation of the publication of the European Standard on eInvoicing;
