Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1870 of 16 October 2017 on the publication of the reference of the European standard on electronic invoicing and the list of its syntaxes pursuant to Directive 2014/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance. )
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The reference of the European standard on electronic invoicing ‘EN 16931-1:2017, Electronic invoicing — Part 1: Semantic data model of the core elements of an electronic invoice’ and the list of syntaxes with reference ‘CEN/TS 16931-2:2017, Electronic invoicing — Part 2: List of syntaxes that comply with EN 16931-1’, as set out in the Annex to this Decision, are hereby published.
18 April 2019 is the final date for bringing into force of the measures referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 11(2) of Directive 2014/55/EU.
This Decision shall enter into force on the first day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
ANNEX LIST OF SYNTAXES The list of syntaxes mentioned in Article 3(2) of Directive 2014/55/EU is provided by CEN in clause 7 of CEN/TS 16931-2:2017, published on 28 June 2017. The 2 syntaxes are the following: 1. UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice XML message as specified in XML Schemas 16B (SCRDM — CII) ( 1 ) . 2. UBL invoice and credit note messages as defined in ISO/IEC 19845:2015 ( 2 ) . ( 1 ) These documents are made available by UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at http://www.unece.org/cefact/xml_schemas/index ( 2 ) These documents are made available by Oasis UBL (Universal Business Language) at http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs1-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.pdf
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