The European Comission updates the EAS code lists managed under the Connecting Europe Facility
The European Commision is making progress in the use of the European standard on eInvoicing (EN 16931) with the update of the Electronic Address Scheme (EAS) code lists managed under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). All implementations of EN 16931 must have been updated to support this release of the validation artifacts and code lists by 30 June 2020, which is the effective date of this release.
The CEF eInvoicing Building Block serves as the managing authority for the Electronic Address Scheme (EAS) code list in the European standard. As the European Comission has announced, CEF has published an interim release of the EAS code list following a request from BOSA in Belgium for it that added code 0208 to the EAS codelist with the aim to support the initiation of its Hermes project. Following the consultation with stakeholders represented in the CEF Advisory Group, the release has taken place.
To maintain consistency and full support to the ICD code list, this update includes adding codes 0205 to 0208 to the list of ICD codes to be supported in implementations of EN 16931. In order to support this new code list version, there has been an upgrade in the EN 16931 validation artefacts that are maintained by CEF on request of CEN/TC434.
After a deadline of Request for Changes on 21 August 2020, the next regular release of the EAS code list, as well as the VATEX code list, will be as scheduled on 4 September 2020. In addition, it will follow an update to the EN 16931 validation artefacts on 2 October 2020. Those interested can register in CEF eInvoicing User Community.
The EURINV19 project is monitoring these progress according to the context of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) suppliers that are part of the iniciative. The consortium, with University of Valencia as coordinator and LMT Group as technical and administrative manager, includes Elcom, NetEDI, Transalis, Althea UK and Ireland Limited from the United Kingdom, SATA from Italy, Generix Group France and Carrefour from France, Crediflow and Qvalia from Sweden, Easy Systems from the Netherlands, Trinity College from Ireland and Tatra Billing from Slovakia.
In this way, the project aims to give support to companies providing EDI and to promote international eInvoice transactions in accordance with the European standard. EURINV19 is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.
You can find more information about the EAS update here.
About EURINV19:
Agreement No.: INEA/CEF/ICT/A2019/1928191
Action No.: 2019‐EU‐IA‐0037
Starting date: 01/01/2020
Duration: 16 months