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Every industry process end to end: the messages involved, the real-world example, the process flow and the associations that publish the binding rulebooks.

Public sector

E-invoice to authorities

Supplier issues an EN 16931 compliant invoice (XRechnung UBL/CII) routed via Peppol or a national portal.

Messages

XRechnung (UBL)XRechnung (CII)Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

Common standards

EN 16931XRechnungZUGFeRD/Factur-XPeppol BIS 3.0

Parties: Supplier ↔ contracting authority

Practice example

A construction firm invoices a federal agency: XRechnung 3.0, Leitweg-ID in BuyerReference, payment terms and VAT breakdown validated against EN 16931 business rules.

Typical process flow

  1. 01Invoice creation (UBL/CII)
  2. 02Schematron validation
  3. 03Peppol or portal transmission
  4. 04Message level response

Rule-setting bodies & associations

Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT) — Freie Hansestadt Bremen

Public-sector coordination office

Website

Maintains the XRechnung standard, the German CIUS of EN 16931, its business rules (BR-DE) and the validator configuration.

c/o Die Senatorin für Finanzen, Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz 1, 28195 Bremen, Deutschland

+49 421 361-59578

info@kosit.org

Rulebooks & documents

CEN-CENELEC Management Centre

European standardisation body

Website

Owner of EN 16931 — the semantic data model and business rules behind every European e-invoice.

Rue de la Science 23, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

+32 2 550 08 11

Rulebooks & documents

OASIS Open (Universal Business Language TC)

Open standards consortium

Website

Universal Business Language 2.1/2.4 — the XML syntax used by Peppol BIS and XRechnung UBL invoices.

P.O. Box 455, Waltham, MA 02454, USA

communications@oasis-open.org

Rulebooks & documents