31 November 2009:
The European Commission's Expert Group on eInvoicing has released its final report.
It provides a set of recommendations for a European Electronic Invoicing Framework,
supporting the uptake of cross border interoperable eInvoicing solutions,
with a particular focus for uptake among SMEs.
This includes the guidance recommendation 5.5.5 "Addressing and Routing"
which stresses that existing identification schemes should be used for this
purpose and that a discussion based on the
CEN CWA on Cyber-Identity shall be convened.
Background information and a download link can be found on the
EC DG Enterprise website and on the
Single Market thematic website.
Please click here for a direct download of the report.
November 2009:
The
CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
CWA (CEN Workshop Agreement) 16036 on
"Cyber-Identity: Unique Identification of organizations and parts thereof"
has been released.
It deals with unique identifiers of organizations (and parts thereof) which point to information
related to the organization (or a part thereof).
They are provided by registration authorities like GS1, D&B or Commercial Registries.
This also comprehends a reliable routing and addressing scheme.
Verifying such addressed information by a Trusted Third Party opens up a new range of applications in
the areas of eCommerce, Supply chain, eInvoicing, conformity assessment.
We have provided substantial input to this document.
You can
read a summary of CWA 16036 (7 pages).
And you can
download CWA 16036 from the CEN FTP server.
