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08/01/2025
e-Invoicing, Regulations
E-Invoicing and Its Geopolitical Stakes
France’s electronic invoicing reform relies on a Y-architecture, where Partner Dematerialization Providers (PDPs) play a central role in issuing and…
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For Generix Group and its client Carrefour France, the project was finalized during the summer of 2021 following the demonstration of the results in front of the representatives of the Commission. The work carried out during the project made it possible to implement new services on the e-invoicing platform that Carrefour France uses and shares with its suppliers. These functional innovations respect European interoperability standards as well as the eIDAS regulation, among the main ones:
- The issuance and receipt of purchase and sales invoices in UBL 2.1 format of European standard EN16931
- The issuance and receipt of purchase and sales invoices in UN-CEFACT CII format of European standard EN16931
- The issuance and receipt of invoices in the mixed Factur-X format incorporating a structured data file in UN-CEFACT CII format
- Transmission of customer or supplier invoices through the European PEPPOL e-delivery Network using the EDIINT AS4 eSENS profile interoperability protocol
In addition, test sessions made it possible to demonstrate to the Commission the European interoperability of the platform used by Carrefour France. Conclusive exchanges have indeed taken place with the English, Swedish and Irish platforms participating in the consortia.
For the next steps, Carrefour France and its provider Generix Group will deploy the new services to Carrefour France customers and suppliers while ensuring the promotion of interoperability standards. As a reminder, EURINV19 is a consortium of a dozen participants from 8 member states (Slovakia, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, France and the Netherlands) collaborating on “the implementation of the European standard within e-invoicing cloud platforms”. The project was coordinated by IRTIC (Institute of Robotics, Technology, Information and Communication) of the University of Valencia in Spain. Nine European eInvoicing cloud platform operators are participating (ELCOM, SATA, NETEDI, GENERIX, CREDIFLOW, QVALIA, TRANSALIS, EASY SYTSEMS and TATRA BILLING) as well as user companies such as Carrefour France. NB: For more information on CEF programs and the HaDEA agency, visit www.ec.europa.eu/inea/en. NB: The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Generix Group. It does not bind that of the European Union.
