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1st CEN e-Invoice Gateway CIM Conference

Past, present and future of CEN WS e-InvoicingAnders Grangard, co-chair

21st June 2011, Zagreb


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2005 CEN all rights reserved

28 Billion invoices / Year in Europe (2006)

Savings with eInvoicing 5.5 8.5 /

Invoice Average 10% are eInvoices

Saving potential: 139 214 Billion / Year

Not saving


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Historically (pre EU Directive 2001/115/CE)

Legislation created for paper invoices

Fear of fraud VAT fraud estimated at up to 10% of net VAT receipts

Different interpretations in different countries

Legislative

Business practices

ICT maturity

New technology barriers The Internet not secure by design

Maturity of content standards

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Why not saving 587 M/Day?


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Currently (post EU Directive 2001/115/CE*)

The Directive provided fundamental change

Electronic invoices must be accepted, if sent as: EDI

Electronic Signature

Other (mutually defined)

No prior acceptance required

Great impact on national level

Cross border remains difficult

The Directive implemented differently in all national laws

SME penetration remains low

Lack of service provider interoperability

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* Later included in the VAT Directive 2006/112/CE

Why not saving 587 M/Day?


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PHASE 0: 5/10 participants

Report on Main Issues of Directive 2001/115

24 October 2002 30 June 2003


Address main issues of focus group report 24 April 2004 11 April 2006

9 Workshop Agreements (CWA)


Support Compliance, raise awareness

26 October 2007 18 June 2009

5 CWAs

PHASE 3:

Integration of Results

2010 20121. Compliance Guideline

2. SME enablement

3. Network interoperability

4. Dissemination

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CEN eInvoicing Workshop


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The Past


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2008 CEN all rights reserved 10/01/2010

Phase 1 CEN Workshop Agreements, CWA

CWA Subject

15574 Commission Recommendation 1994/820/ECOctober 1994,proposed revision with the requirements of

Directive 2001/115/EC

15575 Directive invoice content details as UN/CEFACT Core Components

15576 Recommendation to allowcoded identifiers as an alternative to the current unstructured clear text

identifications

15577 Standardized set of codes in eInvoice messages for VAT exemptions

15578 Survey of VATData Element usage in the Member States and the use of codes for VATExemptions

15579 E-invoices anddigital signatures

15580 Storage of Electronic Invoices

15581 Guidelines for eInvoicing Service Providers

15582 eInvoiceReference Modelfor EU VAT purposes specification


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CEN eInvoices IIIBerlin 15/16 December 2010

Adoption programme for increased electronic invoicing in European

business processes CWA 16046

Compliance of electronic invoice implementations to Council Directive

2001/115/EC and the national legislation as regards electronic invoices

CWA 16047

Cost-effective authenticity and integrity of electronic invoices regardless

of formats and technologies CWA 16048

Implementation of compliant electronic invoice systems in using

emerging technologies and business processes CWA 16049

Framework for emerging network infrastructure of invoice operators

throughout Europe CWA 16050

CEN/ISSS Workshop on Electronic Invoices II

2008 CEN all rights reserved 10/01/2010


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The Present


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ELECTRONIC INVOICE PROCESS


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eInvoicing Compliance Guidelines


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Methodology Link FAQs with the compliance matrix (Excel)

Export to relational model Build interactive user interface on top

Generate CWA type document from it

Simplified Compliance Guidelines


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Develop a model for a European Interoperability Agreement

based on International/European standards

4 Corner Model Addressing and Routing issues

PEPPOL liaison

PEPPOL The four-corner-model

Service Provider Interoperability


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Problems and obstacles that hinder the useof eInvoicing by SMEs

What are the categories of SMEs (beingprepared for eInvoicing, IT environment,etc.)

What are the possible scenarios to entereInvoicing and migrate to better integrationin their business processes

Functional requirements for eInvoicingsolutions

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SME Enablement


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The Future


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CEN eInvoices III

Berlin 15/16 December 2010

What challenges will we face towards 2020?What challenges will we face in 2020?

Key priorities to promote e-invoicing within the EU (EC - 712/2010)

Ensure a consistent legal environment for e-invoicing

Achieve mass market adoption by reaching Small and Medium-sized

Enterprises

Stimulate an environment that creates maximum reach

Promote an e-invoice standard data model

Stakeholder Interface - Multi Stakeholder Forum, National Fora, CEN,

Fiscalis, Service Provider Organisation(s), European Commission

Approach


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CEN eInvoices III


1. Compliance

2. Functional Support

3. Awareness

4. Standards

Main development areas


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CEN eInvoices III


Compliance Area

Increase participation from external auditors, e.g. KPMG, Deloitte

International Audit Guidelines

Translations

Functional Support Area

Interop agreement who will maintain (service provider association, EC,

UN/CEFACT,...)

Revised EDI agreement (94/820/EC)

To include XML, cloud computing, etc

Archiving, Data Transport & Storage Capacity

Some initial thoughts (1/3)


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CEN eInvoices III


Awareness Area

eInv one-stop-shop (including eInv for dummies)

Global content (not just EU)

Connectivity across national fora

Website for multi stake holder fora (national & EU)

Additional functions/services

Standards Area:

Invoice content

MUG1, MUG2

Non-EU requirements, e.g. sales tax

API technical specification - by whom

Some initial thoughts (2/3)


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CEN eInvoices III


Questionnaire

Dialogue with Multi Stakeholder Forum

Form a task group if required

Continue some work, e.g. The gateway

Exchange ideas of future work

Open to any volunteers

Coordinators: Stefan & Anders

Outreach to strategic alliances

UN/CEFACT

Audit organisations

Next Steps


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Contacts

Anders Grangrd

Co-Chairman of CEN/ISSS Workshop on

Electronic Invoices in [email protected]

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