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European standard and specifications

The definition of the European standard on eInvoicing has been carried out by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). CEN has used the work of existing standardisation initiatives such as the CEN BII workshops agreement and the recommendations of the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing as a baseline to come to the definition of the European Norm.

The European standard on electronic invoicing

The European standard on eInvoicing was formally published along with supporting Technical specifications and reports in 6 parts by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) on June 28^th, July 5^th and October 18^th 2017.

Part	Name	ID	Type
1	Semantic data model of the core elements of an electronic invoice	EN 16931-1:2017	Standard
2	List of syntaxes that comply with EN 16931-	CEN/TS 16931-2:2017	Technical specification
3-1	Methodology for syntax bindings of the core elements of an electronic invoice.	CEN/TS 16931-3-1:2017	Technical specification
3-2	Syntax binding for ISO/IEC 19845 (UBL 2.1) invoice and credit note	CEN/TS 16931-3-2:2017	Technical specification
3-3	Syntax binding for UN/CEFACT XML Industry Invoice D16B	CEN/TS 16931-3-3:2017	Technical specification
3-4	Syntax binding for UN/EDIFACT INVOIC D16B	CEN/TS 16931-3-4:2017	Technical specification
4	Guidelines on interoperability of electronic invoices at the transmission level.	CEN/TR 16931-4:2017	Technical report
5	Guidelines on the use of sector or country extensions in conjunction with EN 16931-1, methodology to be applied in the real environment.	CEN/TR 16931-5:2017	Technical report
6	Result of the test of EN 16931-1 with respect to its practical application for an end user	CEN/TR 16931-6:2017	Technical report

Definition examples

The PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specification (BIS) is a CEN BII Profile with additional legal, organisational and technical requirements to support pan-European use. Download PEPPOL Standards.