DS CWA 16046:2009

Adoption programme for increased electronic invoicing in European business processes

Scope

The scope of workgroup 1 in CEN/ISSS WS eINV2:
- supporting to build up the planned website within the “e-invoicing gateway”;
- collecting and describing best practices country by country of electronic invoices and national implementation guidelines in local language;
- supporting a network of national e-invoice forums to foster communication and exchange of national best practices in electronic invoices;
- drafting guidelines as to how to move towards one e-invoice address registry inside EU and bringing up best practice.
In the first workshop meeting a knowledge management strategy was discussed by members of the CEN/ISSS WS phase 1. A stepwise (incremental) approach was chosen:
- Step 1 is to offer all parties who are operating in the field of e-invoicing a participation possibility in an online platform where they are able to enter their profile.
- Step 2 is to offer high quality information about the country specific technical, legal and operational aspects on e-invoicing and support publishing of the CEN/ISSS eINV2 WG results.
The strategy takes care of the following items:
1) Building a non-commercial information portal as single point of contact (SPOC) for European e-invoicing information,
2) Activating a critical mass of users supporting the exchange and collection of high quality information,
3) Annually publishing an intellectual capital statement about e-invoicing.
The processes which shall support these strategies are:
1) Enlisting and self-enlisting of organizations in the field of e-invoicing in Europe (different stakeholders);
2) Establishing a lead person in the field of e-invoicing for each European country who has to fulfill several duties and supports the CEN/ISSS WS eINV2;
3) Collecting country related information about technical, legal and organizational aspects;