CEF eInvoicing: Publication of the Electronic Address Scheme Code List
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The European Commission is happy to announce the publication of the Electronic Address Scheme (EAS) code list.
The management of this code list, undefined in the European standard on eInvoicing, was assigned to the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eInvoicing team. The EAS code list is necessary when using electronic addresses to exchange invoices through transmission networks. Indeed, as the eInvoicing standard is designed to allow any transmission methodology, and because different methods may use different addressing schemes, each scheme must be defined in the EAS code list so that it can be used in compliant invoices.
The CEF eInvoicing team consulted with key stakeholders (such as the European Multistakeholder Forum on eInvoicing (EMSFEI), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the OpenPEPPOL network) and established that identifier schemes supported with the CEF code list should be aligned with on the ISO-owned International Code Designator (ICD) list. The ICD list is already in use for other elements in the eInvoicing standard.
The first version of the EAS code list is currently available and includes 68 codes.
The European Commission provides a maintenance and support service through the CEF Digital 2018 Service Desk supporting stakeholders with:
- Questions concerning the code list;
- The submission of new codes to be added to a new version of the list;
- In registering to the ICD list.
You are therefore invited to visit the code list page and/or contact the CEF Digital 2018 Service Desk to get started using the EAS code list to access the code list, learn about its maintenance process and how CEF can support registration.
Context
The eInvoicing standard's semantic data model defines a set of essential business terms which an electronic invoice may contain to enable cross-border interoperability. These business terms can be of different data types, (e.g. text or date). Code-type business terms must only contain values chosen from a code list identified in the eInvoicing standard. Optional business terms "Electronic address" for both seller and buyer (BT-34 and BT-49) allow an invoice to include information about the buyers' electronic address, to which the invoice is being sent and sellers' electronic address, to which responses to the invoice should be sent. The identifier used as electronic address may be based on different identifier schemes, and the allowed codes for scheme identifiers must be chosen from a code list.