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. )

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1870
• Articles: 4

Article 1

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.

Article 2

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.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the first day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

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