eInvoicing: EMSFEI met in Brussels this week
The European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on eInvoicing (EMSFEI) convened from Tuesday 23 October to Wednesday 24 October in Brussels, Belgium.
The EMSFEI brings together stakeholders from national eInvoicing forums, from both public sector and industry. In addition, the expert group provides an insightful view on the latest policy developments in eInvoicing for the benefit of public administrations, business and citizens.
This event highlighted the importance of the services provided through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eInvoicing building block to further adopt new eInvoicing solutions to comply with the European standard by 18 April 2019, the legal deadline.
Representatives of the European Commission and European Committee for Standardization (CEN) informed EMSFEI members about the agreement on the use of the eInvoicing standard.
This agreement enables the use of the standard by all public and private sector entities, including the use in derivative applications (i.e. Software and other applications that incorporate ideas, concepts or text from the standard). This agreement will remain valid for the duration of the current version of the European standard (the agreement remains valid for 5 years for EN 16931-1: 2017 and 3 years for TS 16931-2: 2017).
Furthermore, EMSFEI participants provided status updates of the implementation of B2G eInvoicing in their Member States in an informal "Tour de Table" setting. Throughout the event members of the forum discussed VAT alignment, code lists, alignment of activities between the Expert Group on eProcurement and EMSFEI. The members were able to share their concerns and best practices in this setting to actively and successfully work towards the deadline next year.
This meeting was also an opportunity to launch the next round of EMSFEI sub groups.
The upcoming focus groups will concentrate on:
New technologies and impact on eInvoicing;
Implementation and peer-to-peer learning;
Standardisation beyond the eInvoicing standard.
Providing a platform for EMSFEI stakeholders to meet and share their best practice cases with one another was again received with great enthusiasm from attending members.
Financed by CEF, the eInvoicing building block promotes the uptake and accelerated use of eInvoicing respecting Directive 2014/55/EU and the European standard on eInvoicing of the 18 April 2019 deadline..
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