country profiles

There are 13 PEPPOL Authorities:

• Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), Italy
• Beleid en Ondersteuning – Stratégie et Appui (BOSA), Belgium
• Danish Business Authority (ERST), Denmark
• Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), Norway
• Department of Health and social care (NHS), England
• Agency for Digital Government (DIGG), Sweden
• Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology (MPiT), Poland
• SimplerInvoicing, Netherlands
• Office of Government Procurement, Ireland
• Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singapore
• Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT), Germany
• Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, New Zealand
• Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australia

National e-invoicing Context

Australia and New Zealand announced the adoption of the PEPPOL framework for e-invoicing in February 2019.

Both countries established separate PEPPOL authorities in October 2019 and are working together to create a seamless business environment.

The common approach to e-invoicing is another step in the digital transformation of both economies and to harness the opportunities it brings to deliver benefits to our communities.

Localisation of PEPPOL in Australia

• Annex 5 to the Transport Infrastructure Agreements
• Localisation of PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 to support Australian tax and business requirements
  • A-NZ invoice specification
  • A-NZ self-billing specification.

Service Providers looking to provide Access Point or Service Metadata Publisher services in Australia and/or New Zealand should comply with the Annex 5 requirements in each country they operate in.

PEPPOL Authority

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) operates the Australian PEPPOL Authority. The ATO is the Australian Government’s principal revenue collection agency and administers Australia’s tax system and significant aspects of Australia’s superannuation system, as well as the Australian Business Register, supporting the delivery of government benefits to the community. The Australian PEPPOL Authority works closely with the service provider and business community to develop the localised requirements and provides support to Access Point and Service Metadata Publisher Providers in Australia.

Contact

For further information visit the Australian PEPPOL Authority webpage or www.ato.gov.au/e-invoicing.

You can contact the Australian PEPPOL Authority by sending an email to e-invoicing@ato.gov.au.

National e-Invoicing context

E-Invoicing the Federal Government is mandatory since January 1st 2014. All Austrian suppliers (and foreign suppliers that have the technical means) of the Austrian Federal Government are obliged to use e-Invoices according to the Austrian ICT consolidation law (IKTKonG). The use of the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure for sending e-Invoices, based on PEPPOL specifications, is an accepted method of e-Invoicing.

PEPPOL invoices can be transmitted to the Austrian Federal Government by foreign and domestic suppliers using the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure. In either case, the e-Invoice is directly submitted to the accounting system of the Austrian Federal Government which triggers the same handling process. Ministry and subordinated departments that are able to receive documents via PEPPOL: https://www.erechnung.gv.at/erb?p=info_department&locale=en_GB Other public sector entities are being integrated (e.g. states, municipalities and government owned companies) into the invoicing solution on a voluntary basis (incl. PEPPOL).

Use of PEPPOL

The PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure is used for e-Invoicing the Federal government.

A centralised public PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) is currently in use.

Approximately 5000 users are enabled as PEPPOL receivers.

PEPPOL BIS 04A v2 and BIS 05A v2 (partially) are implemented in BRZ. PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher The centralised public SMP is operated by BRZ. http://smp.peppol.at

PEPPOL support provided

support-erb@brz.gv.at operated by BRZ https://www.erechnung.gv.at/go/peppoldelivery?locale=en_GB Onboarding support to Access Point and SMP providers Support is only provided on a best-effort basis upon request by email, as BRZ is not a PEPPOL Authority.

Testing and Conformance

Test upload on www.erechnung.gv.at for testing XML invoices prior to submission Special test website test.erechnung.gv.at for all features Special test web service for testing automated invoice delivery Special test PEPPOL participant identifier 9915:test (AS2)

Other support activities

Open forum: www.ebinterface.org

Contact points

Representative Bundesrechenzentrum Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Austrian Federal Computing Centre)

Technical: support-erb@brz.gv.at

General information: Gottfried Kalckstein, Gottfried.Kalckstein@brz.gv.at

Success story

Hewlett Packard and the Austrian Government connected via PEPPOL

The Belgian government identifies PEPPOL as the framework that enables the delivery of any procurement-related e-document from any sender to any receiver, in a suitable and affordable way. PEPPOL is not a private operator.

It is not perceived as a concurrent to other existing solutions. It rather complements them, by offering a set of guidelines that can be easily implemented to create an open, interoperable ecosystem composed of correspondents, operators, editors and authorities, each of them filling in a specific role. It has the potential to enable the same level of performance and universality as the Postal systems in the real world, if it is properly understood and rolled out. Consequently, the roll out of PEPPOL in Belgium is a key-component of the Belgian e-Procurement generalization strategy. Since January 1st 2016, BOSA DTO (formerly Fedict) is the official Belgian PA. Since April 1st, 2016, the public sector recommends PEPPOL as the most convenient channel to receiving invoices.

For a more detailed presentation of the Belgian approach, including specific guidelines applying to Belgium, contacts at the Belgian PEPPOL Authority, practical information about operators and editors, tools and instruments offered by the Public sector, awareness material and many more, please visit the official page of the Belgian PEPPOL Authority.

This page discusses the following aspects:

• General presentation of the Belgian PEPPOL Authority (PA)
• Introduction to the PEPPOL framework
• General Information over PEPPOL in Belgium
• Access Points servicing Belgian customers
• Collaboration with (belgian) software Industry
• Mercurius
• smp.belgium.be
• Additional information about e-invoicing in Belgium and at european level

eInvoicing in Denmark

In Denmark electronic invoicing is mandatory for suppliers of goods and services when doing business with public authorities and public institutions. In turn, all public authorities and public institutions are capable of receiving electronic invoices which has ensured dissemination and uptake and rapidly built critical mass. Today 99 percent of all B2G invoices are electronic.

Legislation

Danish legislation mandates all public authorities to be able to receive eInvoices sent in accordance with the national OIOUBL specification. From April 18, 2019 all state public authorities will be able to receive PEPPOL eInvoices via the PEPPOL eDelivery network. This requirement will by April 18, 2020 be expanded to include all other public authorities as well.

PEPPOL Authority

The Danish Business Authority (ERST) has the role of PEPPOL, which means that ERST is responsible for the registration of companies that wish to become an Access Point (AP) or a Service Metadata Publisher (SMP). ERST is also responsible for reporting, securing Denmark’s national interests, aligning overarching interests in the e-business space with other agencies, quality assurance of the operators’ services and ensuring the long-term adoption of e-procurement using the PEPPOL network as the platform.

Long-term goals

The long-term goal of Danish involvement in PEPPOL is to:

• Facilitate cross-border electronic trade – for both the public and private sectors.
• Increase public sector utilisation of e-invoicing and e-procurement through the use of open standards.
• Provide technical infrastructure to overcome the barriers that often prevent connectivity today.
• Promote B2B electronic invoicing
• Mandate the use of electronic orders and electronic catalogues in public procurement.

Representative

PEPPOL Authority: Nihad Hodzic, nihhod@erst.dk

Main contact for Access Point and SMP agreements:

David Meyrowitsch, davmey@erst.dk

Website: www.erst.dk

National Health Service (NHS) in England eProcurement strategy

In May 2014, the UK Dept. of Health and Social Care published the NHS eProcurement strategy, a policy document supporting the Procurement Development Programme, requiring the adoption of common global standards by NHS providers and their suppliers, throughout their internal and external supply chains.

The key standards required by the strategy for adoption by NHS providers and their suppliers are: 1) GS1 (for product coding, location coding and data synchronisation); 2) PEPPOL (for purchase order, despatch advice and invoice messaging).

The following six NHS Demonstrator Trusts have been selected for central funding and have started implementing the GS1 and PEPPOL standards in January 2016.

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust will demonstrate the benefits and challenges they encounter from using the standards.

PEPPOL requirements for NHS trusts and suppliers

The PEPPOL standards must be used for electronic purchase order and invoice messages (optional for despatch advice notes) and are required to be exchanged through PEPPOL Access Points.

Adoption is mandatory for both NHS Trusts and their Suppliers through conditions of contract, as follows:

• for NHS Trusts through the NHS Standard Contract; and
• for Suppliers through the NHS Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract for the Supply of Goods and Services, due to be published in September 2016.

These electronic documents will have to be exchanged between two PEPPOL Access Points, respectively one for the NHS provider and one for their supplier, implementing a ‘four-corner’ model. NHS trusts and suppliers should select their own preferred PEPPOL Access Point provider to be connected to all organisations in the PEPPOL network and to exchange these business messages.

NHS trusts and suppliers are required to register their receiving capabilities in the centralised PEPPOL SMP that is provided by the Department of Health (DH). For more information, please see DH guidance document – Registration of PEPPOL capability.

While NHS providers and suppliers also need to comply with GS1 standards, in the event where GS1 identifiers – GTINs and GLNs – are not yet available, PEPPOL implementations should proceed in the absence of those identifiers, in line with relevant Supplier Compliance Timelines published by DH.

By moving towards the adoption of the GS1 standards and PEPPOL messaging standards, together with common business processes and business rules, NHS trusts and their suppliers can exchange data automatically without changing their existing IT systems.

NHS Suppliers

Suppliers of medical devices to acute NHS trusts must implement the requirements outlined in the NHS eProcurement strategy, according to the following timeline: NHS Supplier Compliance Timetable

The following survey has been created for key medical device and in-vitro diagnostic product suppliers to the NHS in England and responses will be used to baseline supplier readiness to implement GS1 and PEPPOL standards as mandated by the NHS eProcurement strategy: NSH Supplier Readiness Survey

Suppliers can access the most recent documentation and obtain more information by sending an email to eprocurement@dh.gsi.gov.uk to request access to the DH eXchange online portal where all the supplier facing guidance is available.

PEPPOL milestones

In line with the NHS eProcurement strategy, DH implemented the following actions in 2015: 1) Carried out an end-to-end demonstration of technology exercise (DoT), including production and transmission of electronic Orders, Despatch Advice notes and Invoices (Q2 2015); 2) Published a specific case study[1] and guidance documents demonstrating how the PEPPOL processes and technology work within the NHS environment; The following activities will be carried out during 2016: 1) DH will commence activities as the PEPPOL Authority for English NHS Trusts, taking responsibility for the governance of the PEPPOL network; 2) The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will establish a Framework Agreement for PEPPOL Access Point providers to commence in October 2016. All NHS Trusts and the wider UK public sector will have access to the Framework Agreement.

PEPPOL Authority

From October 2016, DH will perform the following activities, acting as the PEPPOL Authority for English NHS Trusts:

• On-boarding Access Point providers, providing support for testing and validation
• Provide a centralised PEPPOL SMP, listing NHS Trusts and Suppliers capable of receiving PEPPOL messages
• Ensure compliance with the PEPPOL legal framework and policies for Access Point providers
• Providing guidance and information to NHS Trusts and Suppliers

Frequently Asked Questions

GS1 and PEPPOL adoption – FAQs Supplier FAQs

Contacts

Main contact: scan4safety@dhsc.gov.uk

Technical support: Please route to Primary Contact who will allocate as appropriate

Useful links NHS eProcurement Strategy PEPPOL Case Study Registration of PEPPOL Capability Supplier compliance timeline for medical devices and in-vitro diagnostic devices

National e-Invoicing context

While the Modernization Law of the French Administration (LME) mandated e-Invoicing reception for the French State (Ministries and related bodies) since the 1st January 2012 , the Simplification law (article 1) voted on October 4th, 2013, mandates all Economic Operators (private sector) to send electronic invoices to the public sector, from January 1st, 2017.A gradual national eInvoicing roll-out in the public and private sector is expected from 1st January 2017 to 1st January 2020, with the following deadlines:

• By 1st January 2017 for large groups and all Contracting Authorities
• By 1st January 2018 for intermediate size enterprises
• By 1st January 2019 for medium size enterprises
• By 1st January 2020 for small enterprises

E-Invoicing Roadmap

1. Publish the technical specifications for e-invoicing by Q1 2015
2.  Setting up a single gateway, developed and managed by AIFE (Agence Informatique des Finances de l’Etat), for service providers through a service layer (SOA) to ensure neutrality regarding technical interoperability but encouraging the choice of standards and overarching infrastructure like PEPPOL to increase interoperability for cross border transactions
3. Integrating the requirements of the EN on e-Invoicing along with PC 434 and CEN BII developments
4. Aligning specifications with the standardisation work

French e-Invoicing portal

CHORUS invoice is the national portal for eInvoicing to the French public sector, which is connected to a PEPPOL Access Point and Service Metadata Publisher, currently operated by SERES.

The new CHORUS PORTAL PRO 2017 (CPP 2017) is currently under development and will be accessible by any service provider.

The platform will provide a number of notifications to the sender: received, rejected, ongoing, delivered to the buyer, suspended (waiting for attachments), processed to payment etc.

The platform is expected to perform at least three levels of validation. At a first level, a technical validation will be applied to formats, syntax and cardinality. A second level on the data structure , checking if a field is not empty, existence of a reference to the order, if requested by the buyer, and party identifiers. For routing purposes, it has been decided that every contracting authority will be identified by a National SIRET number (possibly adding an extension for service identifier).

CPP 2017 could be accessed by private and public organisations though EDI, portal, or service providers, meaning that depending on their choice, organisations will be able to access directly the current CHORUS portal or use a service provider. The first option is expected to be offered at zero cost and technologically neutral.

The solution will accept several structured (XML) or unstructured (PDF) formats converting them to common semantic format.

Compliance to the future EN core semantic model, will be ensured, using two basic structured formats (already existing in the current platform) one bound to UBL 2.0 (with potential update to UBL 2.1) and accepting PEPPOL invoices (BIS v.2) received from the European network, another to UN/CEFACT CII CCTS V3.0. Billing profile and credit note is currently being studied.

Contact: Vincent CASTELLA – Head of project – AIFE (Agence Informatique Financière de l’Etat)

Email: vincent.castella@finances.gouv.fr

Use of PEPPOL

The following PEPPOL components are in use in France:

• Transport Infrastructure (SMP/Access Point)
• e-Invoicing
• e-Signature Validation Service

Onboarding support to Access Point and SMP providers

Support provided by commercial PEPPOL experts.

Contact point

Technical and general information Thierry AMADIEU Email: Thierry.amadieu@amadieu-conseil.eu

Successful pilots

• e-Catalogue: 2 pilots in healthcare with hospitals (UniHA and RESAH Ile de France) material not online but provided on request
• e-Invoicing: CHORUS Invoice (one ongoing pilot with IBM)

Awaiting update from Netherlands.

National e-Procurement context

The Norwegian government has set out public sector targets for e-procurement, in alignment with broader European initiatives. Within Norway, Difi (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment) is officially empowered to develop frameworks and tools for encouraging the adoption of e-Procurement in the public sector. This mandate is supported by legislation passed in 2012, which requires that Norwegian public sector entities must utilize electronic invoicing for all procurement activities.

Since the 1st of July 2011, it became mandatory for all central government entities to receive invoices electronically in a standard format; and from the 1st of July 2012 it became mandatory for central government entities to require their suppliers to invoice them electronically using the EHF format – a national implementation of the PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) – recommending use of the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure for business document exchange.

Norway’s e-procurement infrastructure is built around the pan-European PEPPOL standards and network, supplemented by specific national and EU-based systems. This approach helps ensure fast adoption though a high degree of compatibility with buyers’ and sellers’ existing enterprise management and procurement solutions.

Both buyers and sellers can choose to establish their own Access Point or to enter into an agreement with any of the service providers connected to the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure in Norway, or throughout Europe.

For more information about the Norwegian eProcurement infrastructure, please click here

It is expected that the use of electronic means for the automation of the pre-award procurement processes will be mandatory from 2016.

Use of PEPPOL

Use of PEPPOL is recommended by the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation.

The following PEPPOL components are in use in Norway:  e-Catalogue, e-Ordering, e-Invoicing, credit note and payment reminder, exchanged through the PEPPOL transport infrastructure.

Please click here to see the complete e-procurement process and the tools Difi provides to support it.

The use of PEPPOL–based solutions has grown steadily in Norway, registering the following results, as of October 2018:

• 41 Access Points in production • More than 121.000 end-users enabled as PEPPOL receivers • Over 8 million transactions per month

Please click here to see the complete list of PEPPOL receivers in Norway.

PEPPOL Authority

Difi, the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and e-Government, is the PEPPOL Authority in Norway. Difi authorise Norwegian-registered access points and operate the ELMA registry (PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher) containing the identities and receiving capabilities of all Norwegian public and private sector entities that communicate using the transport infrastructure.

In order to facilitate technology adoption, Difi offers the Oxalis open source sample implementations for PEPPOL Access Points, which are widely used by service providers across Europe.

Difi support the private sector Access Point providers and users of EHF/PEPPOL BIS through regular meetings, web pages and other means.

PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher (SMP)

ELMA is the national PEPPOL Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) managed by Difi. The ELMA registry is used by the access points to verify the identity of individual participants, find the location of the access point where they can be reached, and to confirm their functional capabilities: the types of documents (EHF/PEPPOL BIS) or data that the participant can send or receive via the PEPPOL infrastructure.

PEPPOL support provided by the PEPPOL Authority

Onboarding of Contracting

Difi has a dedicated team to support onboarding of PEPPOL Access Point providers, providing guidance about the set up and testing access point services.

Difi provides support to ICT providers through detailed guides that are available about setting up and using the Norwegian e-procurement infrastructure: http://www.anskaffelser.no/e-procurement/guides/how-guides and https://vefa.difi.no/peppol/

PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements (TIA)

Click here to download the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements provided by Difi.

Enhanced use of the PEPPOL infrastructure

In addition to the use of the PEPPOL infrastructure for eProcurement, Difi has started to use it in a more general eGovernment context. The ISO 20022 payment implementation  (https://vefa.difi.no/iso20022/) is using the PEPPOL infrastructure added with an extra layer of end-to-end (corner1-corner4) security (Secrecy, Authenticity, Integrity and Traceability),

Contact points

Access Points: aksesspunkt@difi.no

EHF format: ehf@difi.no

ELMA Registry: elma@difi.no

Electronic invoicing: elektronisk.faktura@difi.no

Representative: Jens Aabol/Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen, Difi

The eInvoicing in public procurement implementation process in Poland was initiated by the Ministry of Economic Development in cooperation with a technology partner – Institute of Logistics and Warehousing (ILiM). At the beginning of January 2018, as a result of organizational changes, a part of Ministry of Economic Development was transformed into Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology (MPiT), that currently performs the duties of PEPPOL Authority in Poland.

Act on electronic invoicing in public procurement in Poland entered into force on April 18, 2019. Project of that law was adopted in September 2018 by the Council of Ministers and in November that year was directed to the Polish Parliament, where the final wording of the act was adopted. In addition to the legal basis, the Act introduced the obligation for public administration to use the central tool – national eInvoicing Platform (PEF). Main facts arising from the provisions of the Act:

1. eInvoicing in public procurement is mandatory for receiving side – public entities,
2. eInvoicing in public procurement is voluntary for submitting side – economic operators,
3. eInvocing in public procurement is mandatory for recipients in case of the public procurement below the 30000 EUR threshold too. The only exception is when the public entity disables the use of electronic invoices in any document initiating the public procurement (option applies only to procurement below the threshold),
4. Central national eInvoicing platform has been created,
5. Using the platform is free of charge,
6. The platform works within the PEPPOL network,
7. The minister competent for economy is a member of OpenPEPPOL and performs the role of a PEPPOL Authority,
8. The public entity is required to create an account on the platform before the expected date of receiving the first eInvoice.

Poland did not create its own national or sectoral CIUS. The Polish technical specifications refer to the PEPPOL BIS. Based on the PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 standard, implementation guides for eInvoice document have been developed.

Through the PEF, additional voluntary documents can be exchanged. Poland adopted a standard for five other types of documents frequently used in a public procurement post-award process. These documents are:

1. Order
2. Despatch advice
3. Receiving advice
4. Correcting invoice (specific for Polish tax order)
5. Accounting note

The first two documents are based on the standard guides of PEPPOL BIS 3.0. Specification for RecAdv was developed basing on the structure of DesAdv. Specifications of Correcting invoice and accounting note were developed specifically for Poland basing on UBL credit note scheme.

National eInvoicing Platform – PEF

PEF platform is the central point of eInvoices exchange in public procurement. PEF was launched on April 1, 2019. From April 18, 2019 it is possible to exchange documents via platform. Setting up accounts and using the platform is free of charge, however the A2B/B2A traffic is allowed only.

The platform is operated by two service providers (brokers). Both solutions present a different graphic layout, but give the same possibilities and functionalities. It’s enough to set up an account on one of them. Both operators are certified providers of PEPPOL services, therefore PEF users can be easily connected to PEPPOL users all around the world. Both Polish and foreign operators can register on PEF, but the platform is only available in the Polish language version.

Info for foreign Service Providers

It is not necessary to sign TIA/Annex 5 with Polish PA to offer the service of exchanging documents between Polish entities and economic operators. Nevertheless, it is possible if needed. Current version of Annex 5 can be found in the OpenPEPPOL Confluence common space. More about eInvoicing in Poland: https://efaktura.gov.pl (Polish language version only) Implementation guides for documents: https://efaktura.gov.pl/dokumentacja/ (guides for receiving advice, correcting invoice and accounting note – described in English also)

Contact:

General information Michał Paćkowski Email: michal.packowski@mpit.gov.pl

Technical information Tadeusz Rudnicki Email: Tadeusz.rudnicki@ilim.poznan.pl

Nationwide E-Invoicing Framework in Singapore

The Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) is working with industries to implement the nationwide E-Invoicing framework to help businesses improve efficiency, reduce cost, enjoy faster payment cycles, access to new financing options and build a strong foundation for digitalisation.

IMDA joined as the PEPPOL Authority in Singapore in May 2018, and is responsible for approving and certifying Access Point (AP) providers in Singapore. As the PEPPOL Authority, IMDA is also responsible for setting national rules and specifications that meet Singapore’s domestic requirements. Currently, there is no national extension of the PEPPOL BIS format. BIS 3.0 will be used as the standard for Singapore.

SGNIC, a subsidiary of IMDA, is the appointed Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) in Singapore. The Singapore APs will need to register the PEPPOL ID of Singapore businesses with the Singapore SMP. The format of the PEPPOL ID is made known to all Singapore APs.

IMDA is working with the relevant stakeholders, including other government agencies, trade associations, APs, solution providers, large businesses, and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, to create a vibrant e-invoicing ecosystem in Singapore. In addition, IMDA is leading the adoption of PEPPOL in the ASEAN region. IMDA will assist the neighbouring countries in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region who are interested in introducing a domestic standard of e-invoicing and promote more seamless cross-border businesses activities.

For more information, please visit www.imda.gov.sg/einvoice or email us at einvoice@imda.gov.sg.

National e-Procurement context

The Single Face To Industry (SFTI) – a joint initiative in the Swedish public sector to promote e-procurement – recommend the use of the PEPPOL network for electronic procurement, to enable connected buyers and suppliers to easily communicate with each other.

The recommendation follows a previous SFTI decision to use PEPPOL as the messaging standard for the following electronic documents: catalogue, purchase order and invoice, which are united under the concept of Svehandel.

The Agency for Digital Government (DIGG) participation in PEPPOL are focused on the introduction of eInvoicing, e-procurement and the establishment of common infrastructure designed to facilitate cross-border trade.

The Swedish government has decided to mandate eInvoicing to the public sector, forbidding paper invoices, and will implement the EU Directive on e-invoicing in public procurement into national law by April 1st 2019.

Use of PEPPOL in Sweden

The following PEPPOL components are currently in use in Sweden:

• Transport Infrastructure (Access Points and SMP providers)
• e-Invoicing
• e-Ordering
• e-Catalogue

PEPPOL Authority

DIGG has the role of a PEPPOL Authority, which means that the DIGG is responsible for the registration of companies that wish to become an Access Point (AP) or a Service Metadata Publisher (SMP).  DIGG is also responsible for reporting, securing Sweden’s national interests, aligning overarching interests in the e-business space with other agencies (e.g. SFTI http://sfti.se/tjanster/englishpages.1925.html , SALAR https://skl.se/tjanster/englishpages.411.html  and Kammarkollegiet https://www.kammarkollegiet.se/en ), quality assurance of the operators’ services and ensuring the long-term adoption of e-procurement using the PEPPOL network as the platform.

The long-term goal of Swedish involvement in PEPPOL is to:

• Facilitate cross-border electronic trade – for both the public and private sectors. • Increase public sector utilisation of e-invoicing and e-procurement through the use of open standards. • Provide technical infrastructure to overcome the barriers that often prevent connectivity today.

Contact points

Please contact the PEPPOL team at DIGG by sending an email to: peppol@digg.se