CEN/TC 434 (CEN Technical Committee 434) is a technical body within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) developing standards in the field of Electronic Invoicing. [1] [2]
CEN/TC 434 has developed the European Standard on Electronic Invoicing (EN 16931–1) and other ancillary standardization deliverables [3] required by the European Directive 2014/55/EU. [4]
Directive 2014/55/EU also required:
- the test of the standard as to its practical application for an end user,
- a report on the outcome of the test to the European Parliament and the Council [5] by the European Commission and, after the publication and the test of the standard,
- the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of a reference to the European Standard together with the list of a limited number of syntaxes [6] (that CEN published as TS 16931-2).
CEN/TC 434 has the following working groups (WGs):
CEN/TC 434/WG 2 (List of syntaxes) was disbanded.
Thanks to an agreement between CEN and the European Commission EN 16931-1:2017 and CEN/TS 16931-2:2017 are available free of charge from the CEN members (i.e. the European national standardization bodies).
Schematron validation artefacts for UBL, CII and XML EDIFACT invoices, complant with EN 16931-1 are available here.
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