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Spotlight PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 The EU e-invoicing mandate is here — France Sept 2026, Belgium Jan 2026, Germany 2025.

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CEN TC 434

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CEN EU e-invoicing committee.

Definition

CEN/TC 434 publishes EN 16931-1 (semantic data model), EN 16931-2 (list of syntaxes), CEN/TS 16931-3-x (CIUS per syntax UBL Invoice, CII, EDIFACT). 2024 update (EN 16931-1:2024). EU mandate M/528. NEN (Netherlands) secretariat. Adopted by all national European CIUS: XRechnung Germany, FatturaPA Italy, OIOUBL Denmark.

Origin

CEN/TC 434 created 2014 ; EN 16931-1:2017 published 28 June 2017 ; 2024 revision.

Example in context

All EU public buyers must accept EN 16931 invoices since April 2019 ; UBL/CII format Schematron validable per CEN.