Publication of the 2020 eInvoicing Country factsheets
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The European Commission is happy to announce this year's publication of the eCEF eInvoicing Country factsheets.
The European Commission commissioned this data collection in order to provide an accurate "stay-of-play" of the transposition of Directive 2014/55/EU on eInvoicing in public procurement, adoption of the European standard on eInvoicing (EN 16931-1:2017) and national and Business-to-Government (B2G) solutions. This year, the two major updates are the country data related to the eInvoicing implementation at the sub-central level and the respective national eInvoicing monitoring strategy selected. This work draws exclusively from data provided to the Commission by members of the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing (EMSFEI). The EMSFEI oversees both the policy and technical implementation mandates for B2G eInvoicing in the EU Member States and additional countries in EEA.
To implement the eInvoicing Directive at the sub-central level, some countries requested a "year of extension", meaning a legal deadline of 18 April 2020 for eInvoicing implementation at the local and regional levels. Today, according to latest country factsheet revisions, thirteen countries are fully or partially compliant with the Directive. Eleven of them have put in place an eInvoicing monitoring.
The country factsheets also provide country-specific information about the national legal frameworks, eInvoicing platforms, implementation of the standard, and the strategy in place to receive and process electronic invoices in each country.
The publication of these factsheets aims to further enhance transparency and cooperation among eInvoicing stakeholders and to encourage a harmonised eInvoicing implementation. For this reason, all the country factsheets are now shared on CEF Digital, and more information on eInvoicing are available on the website of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eInvoicing Building Block.