Changes To The Draft Business Plan As Agreed At The Kick Off Meeting On 2010 02 09

CEN Workshop on eInvoicing phase 3 eINVIII_006

Secretariat: Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut (NEN) Mr. G. van den Akker Telephone: +31 15 2 690 426 Vlinderweg 6 E-mail: [email protected] P.O. box 5059 2600 GB Delft The Netherlands

Title : Changes to the draft business plan as agreed at the kick-off meeting on 2010-02-09 Source : Secretariat Date : 2010-02-09 Status : For information Note :

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Business Plan for a CEN Workshop on eInvoicing phase 3 (CEN WS/INV3)

Chapter 1 Status of this Business Plan

V0.4: Draft version 4 December 2009

Chapter 2 Workshop proposers or participants (companies, organizations, etc.)

The eInvoicing 3 participants (see list in annex A). Chapter 3 Workshop objectives The implementation of electronic invoicing across Europe is currently a high priority in many European countries; large, small and medium sized companies are increasingly moving to electronic invoicing. Electronic invoicing will benefit both companies trading intra-Member State and those trading within national borders by simplifying and harmonising processes and reducing costs, which particularly will benefit SMEs. The work in the first two phases of the CEN eInvoicing Workshop has demonstrated the need for a common stakeholder understanding of the means to implement electronic invoicing. The Expert Group on eInvoicing, set up by the European Commission, has been a practical demonstration of the need for a clear regulatory and policy framework for raising awareness and bringing political emphasis. The European Commission Expert Group on eInvoicing delivered its final report at the end of 2009. The Expert Group recommends a substantial number of standards-related actions. The basic semantic characteristics of the invoices themselves are proposed to be carried out under the UN/CEFACT cross-industry invoice (CII data model). For the CII, further work at European level is needed to draft a set of implementation guidelines. The other standards related recommendations of the Expert Group also need to be progressed by the workshop, as appropriate. This work together with the result of the previous phases of the eInvoicing workshop are expected to form the major basis for the CWAs described below and the development of this set of CII implementation guidelines under a process in the course of being agreed. It is planned that this workshop will fulfill an important role in this latter process. In addition to Expert Group on eInvoicing, two more groups have to be mentioned, which both touch upon the areas of interest for the CEN Workshop on eInvoices, although both initiatives are focused on public procurement: a) CEN Workshop on Business Interoperability Interfaces for public procurement in Europe (CEN WS/BII): The objectives of this CEN Workshop are: to identify and document the required business interoperability interfaces related to pan-European electronic transactions in public procurement expressed as a set of technical specifications taking due account of current and emerging UN/CEFACT standards in order to ensure global interoperability, and to co-ordinate and provide support to pilot projects implementing the technical specifications in order to remove technical barriers preventing interoperability. Phase 1 of the workshop is concluded and a second phase is being launched.

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b) Pan-European Public eProcurement On-Line (PEPPOL): The objective of the PEPPOL project is to set up a pan-European pilot solution that, conjointly with existing national solutions, facilitates EU-wide interoperable public eProcurement. The vision of the PEPPOL project is that any company and in particular SMEs in the EU can communicate electronically with any European governmental institution for the entire procurement process. The final outcome of PEPPOL will be an interoperational environment build upon national systems and infrastructures supporting the full cycle of eProcurement activities. The pilots that will be developed in PEPPOL will support any economic operator in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) to respond to any published public tender notice electronically and to govern the entire procurement process from their own national infrastructure to any another national infrastructure. Thereby PEPPOL will focus on the engagement and participation of SME companies to public eProcurement However, both activities clearly demonstrate that standards in the area of electronic invoicing and interoperability have a normative dimension and can be a platform both for compliance and for constructive regulatory change. The major objective of the Work Shop is to provide support for a continuing technical platform to carry out the specific European work that stakeholders require, both in terms of the technical needs expressed in the CEN eInvoicing Workshop Phase 2 and the recommendations of the Expert Group by producing a set of defined CWAs. The overall target of Phase 3 will be “Integration of efforts in standardisation and developments”. This CEN e-invoice Platform will:

Be open to the participation of any interested party; Reach stakeholder consensus on standards-related issues; Provide the appropriate interface with international and other European standards

activities

Chapter 4 Workshop's Work Programme

4.1 General The overall target of Phase 3 will be “Integration of efforts in standardisation and developments” in the following areas: Standards (e-invoicing modules for business software, methodology of software tools,

functionalities and specifications for business software requirements) Compliance (improvement of cooperation between companies and tax authorities,

establishment of clear common understanding between companies and tax authorities in EU, accessibility of rules and regulation)

Implementation (best practice implementations with model agreements for electronic invoicing, model processes and SME focussed best practices)

Business Process (integration of electronic invoice in existing business processes). 4.2 Four specific projects The project will last 23 months; from January 2010 to November 2011. The tasks described below and the milestones are also presented in the project schedule (see below). Task 0: Launching the project within the CEN Workshop



The project will be approved by the Workshop based on this Business Plan, defining the Phase 3 activities (WS/eINV 3).The Business Plan contains the detailed Terms of Reference text (based on the Grant Agreement text), and the exact description of CWAs 1 to 4 inclusive. Task 1: Circulation of the project description and detailed work programme to all interested parties. The work programme will be distributed to members of the Workshop during phase 2, and in addition to a wide range of other interested parties. Announcement of the Workshop project will be made available on the CEN website, http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/sectors/sectors/isss/activity/einvoicing_2.asp, and on the CEN e-Invoice Gateway, http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net/. Task 2: Selection and establishing of the Project Teams 3 months after the date of signature. Small Project Teams of paid experts are necessary to help the Workshop members agree on drafting the deliverables. These experts will be selected through an open call for nomination circulated by e-mail and posted on the CEN web-site. The proposed text to be used for the call for experts will be submitted to potential members of the Workshop. The experts of the Project Team will be appointed under CEN Workshop rules. Task 3: Setting up of a web site devoted to the Workshop with a private area for Workshop members. The work programme will be posted on the public area, along with other public documents. All Workshop members will be provided with personal login data. In accordance with the CEN practice, links will be established with the CEN web pages, where the Workshop deliverables will be posted. CWAs supported by the Commission’s ICT work programme are available free of charge for downloading from Internet. Task 4: Organisation of a kick-off meeting open to all interested parties within 3 months after the date of signature of the Grant Agreement. Task 5: Organisation of Workshop meetings. The Workshop will meet in plenary sessions four times a year. Besides, the Workshop will work electronically, an electronic repository and electronic list will be provided by the Workshop Secretariat. Task 6: Drafting the eINV3 CWAs CWA 1: Development of sustainable compliance guidelines for electronic invoicing,

to be used by companies across Europe. The aim is to produce a simplified version of the eInvoicing Compliance Guidelines taking into account all current and evolving principle issues to be observed – legal and technical as well as the perspective of taxation and auditing. To translate it into as many different languages as possible and prepare an interactive “compliance tool box” which will be ready for awareness campaign in the Member States. At least the major languages in the EU will be targeted (EN, DE, ES, IT, FR, PL)

CWA 2: Electronic invoice processes in Europe and enablement of SMEs to use them efficiently. E-Invoicing procedures are currently predominantly used amongst big companies and are very seldom used in the SME environment. It is therefore important to define procedures, which will help to spread this concept as widely as possible including to SMEs, in view of its potential to shorten the transaction chain. Member States have their own regulations, with substantial differences, that hinder implementation and provide no added value to the user communities. The aim of this activity is not to list again all legal requirements, but to develop harmonized procedures and agreements between trading parties and as far as possible tax authorities at European level to permit harmonized cross border invoicing. This will be mainly process oriented, but will also include technical and legal requirements. It will include new business practices in achieving electronic invoices easily, e.g. self-billing and the development of an electronic invoice module, which should lead to a standardised API for accounting software producers and service providers.

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CWA 3: Conformance criteria for interoperability across e-business networks and services. In order to foster interoperability across e-business networks and their services, it is proposed to define a set of conformance criteria. These conformance criteria shall be set for different levels of interoperability to provide a “stairway to interoperability” especially for SMEs participating in eBusiness, in order to give them crystal-clear indications of the steps to be taken. These phased conformance criteria could start from compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and continue towards more detailed specifications of operational and technical interoperability, aiming finally to full eBusiness interoperability throughout the supply chain. This conformance system will be voluntary in character, but will be used by (a) companies themselves, wishing to migrate into eInvoicing, (b) by solution providers offering compliant solutions and (c) by tax administrations wishing to assess solutions on the market. Conformance testing itself should be voluntary and each organisation should be able to make a self-assessment against the identified criteria, but it should also be possible for organisations to offer a compliance testing. In developing the conformance criteria, the CWA will take due account of the relevant activities of CEN Workshop BII and the EU PEPPOL project (both activities are explained in see section 5.1), and of the Guidance Recommendations for Interoperability from the Expert Group on e-Invoicing, that outlines the following requirements:

To develop and maintain a consistent and accepted terminology To develop minimum business and technical requirements for messaging and

connectivity based on international/European standards To tackle the addressing and routing issue To develop technical recommendations for the various operating models (2,3,4

corner etc) CWA 4: Awareness and promotion

The CEN e-Invoice Gateway website, http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net/.has turned out to be one of the key sources for companies willing to invest and start a project in the area of electronic invoicing. The gateway brings all the 27 EU countries and in addition non-EU countries in one platform and fulfills truly the function of a gateway. This gateway should be used to drive more efficiency, spread the information and simplify the access of companies to information on electronic invoicing in each aspect. The gateway will be developed into a self contained platform for users and will be used as an open and easy knowledge tool. As a key requirement, this website will remain an open and neutral platform with no commercial purposes. The organisation of the website will be self contained and managed by a non-profit-organisation. The proof of concept and the longer-term organization and arrangements will be described and settled by end of the Workshop Phase 3.

Task 7: delivery to the EC of the Interim report, consisting of draft CWAs (eInv 3) 10 months after the date of signature. Task 8: Organisation of a public conference 18 months after the date of signature To inform a larger audience of the Workshop activities and collect additional comments on the draft deliverables before the web public consultation. Task 9: Posting the draft CWAs for public consultation 19 months after the date of signature Task 10: Process of the public comments to the draft CWAs. All comments received are taken into consideration and are resolved to obtain the final draft. The experts must either introduce the proposed changes, or explain why they consider them not applicable. The disposition of comments shall be published in a Workshop document.

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Task 11: Adoption of the 4 CWAs at the final plenary session, 22 months after the date of signature. The eInv 3 CWAs are adopted at a Workshop plenary meeting. The experts present their resolution of comments at the plenary session. Task 12: Satisfaction survey conducted during the adoption plenary session. The satisfaction survey is proposed to the participants of the eInv 3 WS Task 13: Submission to the European Commission of the Final technical report to 23 months after the date of signature. Delivery to the European Commission of the Final technical report, consisting of: - the approved CWAs; - the performance indicators; - and the satisfaction survey results - a management report on the work, carried out for the execution of the action. S = contract signature date Task Time line Task 1: Circulation of the project description work programme to all interested parties

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Task 2: Selection and establishing of the Project Teams S + 3 months: Task 3: Setting up of a web site devoted to the project Workshop with a private part for Workshop members

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Task 4: Organisation of a kick-off meeting open to all interested parties within 3 months after the date of signature

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Task 5: Organisation of Workshop meetings S + 0 to S+ 22 months: Task 6: Drafting eINV 3 CWAs 1 to 4 inclusive S + 3 to S+ 22 months: Task 7: Delivery to the EC of the Interim report, consisting of draft CWAs

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Task 8: Organisation of a public conference S + 18 months Task 9: Posting the draft CWAs 1 to 4 for a public consultation S + 18 months to S +

20 months Task 10: Incorporation of the comments into the 4 draft CWAs S + 21 months to S +

22 months Task 11: Adoption of the 4 CWAs at the final plenary session S + 22 months Task 12: Satisfaction survey conducted during the adoption plenary session

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Task 13: Submission of the Final technical report to EC S + 23 months Task 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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The Workshop will operate under CEN/CENELEC rules.

Two Workshop Co-Chairs will manage the Workshop.

The responsibility of the Workshop Co-Chairs is:

To preside at Workshop plenary meetings. To ensure that the Workshop delivers in line with its Business Plan. To manage the consensus building process To interface with the CEN/CMC regarding strategic directions, problems arising,

external relationships, etc.

Under the responsibility of the Workshop Chairs, the Secretariat will support the Workshop in all its activities.

The four projects will each require a Project Team, i.e. a team of paid experts that are given the task of a large editing job in a short period of time. This tool can be used in those cases where there is a requirement to produce a substantial piece of new text for the Workshop's consideration in a short time frame.

The creation of a Project Team requires the agreement by the Workshop of detailed Terms of Reference in each case, the establishment of a neutral selection panel, and Workshop endorsement of the selected candidates.

Chapter 6 Resources

Workshop Co-Chairs This is a voluntary function; the Chairs will be appointed by the Workshop at the Kick-Off meeting. Workshop Secretariat This function will be carried out by the Netherlands national standardisation organisation NEN. It is estimated that 30 man-days effort will be required, funded by the fees of the registered participants of the Workshop and by the EU and EFTA under the eEurope Standards Action Plan. Workshop Expert Team The drafting of the documents requires specialized expertise, which is not available to standardization managers as permanently employed by CEN and its member [AFNOR, DIN, NEN, etc]. This is the justification for the sub-contracting of some of the Commission financial support. To employ such specialised experts by a CEN member would be expensive and not economically viable considering the very specific area of specialization that is required for the execution of this contract. To engage the services of the appropriate specialist experts from the market is more cost-effective. This sub-contracting also enables the quick availability of the drafts to enter the consensus building and validation processes, which are CEN’s core business. The number of mandays that will be needed is 200 distributed between 4 experts. The budget foreseen for these experts is 130.000 €.

CEN has a standard methodology to select specialized experts, which participate in Project Teams. Project Team experts are selected by a selection panel from the applications received as the result of an open Call for Experts. The open call refers to the expertise required for being eligible for participation in the Project Team.

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For these Project Teams, the selection panel will, in accordance with the existing rules for the selection of Project Team experts, consist of the co-chairs of the technical activity, the Secretary and a CMC staff member as the representative of the CEN Secretary General. Candidates should have in general the qualifications required for each of the work packages indentified by the Workshop. For the Project Teams in relation to this Grant, experts should have specific expertise and knowledge, which will be the main criterion for their selection and which is described in detail below: Common criteria to all Project Team experts:

Electronic invoices: thorough overall understanding of processes and issues at stake,

Business and/or commercial experience in electronic invoices,

High knowledge and proven experience of work in standards' bodies.

Team player and supportive to the Plenary;

Experience in working in European and international projects must be proven;

More specifically:

Project Team Expert(s) 1 – 60 man days:

The expert(s) dealing with development of a sustainable toolbox for electronic invoicing should have:

Experience in IT security, transport level security and emerging security technologies must be very good;

Legal and VAT knowledge (compliance parts only);

Knowledge in operational and technical interoperability in the frame of e-business

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The expert(s) dealing with electronic invoice processes in Europe and enablement of SMEs to use them efficiently

Deep knowledge in international trade/ebusiness recommendations and standards for interoperability

Legal and VAT knowledge (compliance parts only),

Experience in SME needs;

will edit the CWA 2 on ‘Electronic invoice processes in Europe and enablement of SMEs to use them efficiently’.




The expert(s) dealing with conformance criteria for interoperability across e-business networks and services:

Deep knowledge in e-business networks and services

Deep knowledge in international trade/eBusiness recommendations and standards for interoperability

Knowledge in legal and regulatory requirements for eBusiness

will edit the CWA 3 on ‘Conformance criteria for interoperability across e-business networks and services’.


The expert(s) dealing with Awareness and promotion

Very good communication skills:

Technical experience for designing website, wikis etc.

Experience in programming easy to use tools on gateway;

will develop the Gateway website into a self contained platform for users and will be used as an open and easy to use standardisation tool. As a key requirement, this website will be an open and neutral platform with no commercial purposes. The organisation of the website will be self contained and managed by a non-profit-organisation. The proof of concept will be reached by end of the Workshop phase 3.



Chapter 7 Contact points

CEN eInvoicing Workshop Co-Chairs: Stefan Engel-Flechsig [email protected]

Anders Grangard [email protected]

CEN eInvoicing Workshop Secretariat - NEN:

Gertjan van den Akker [email protected]

Cher Bouwer [email protected]

CEN Alain Dechamps [email protected]

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Annex A

WS Participants

Name Company Country ASCHBACHER Helmut Campus 02 - University of Applied Sciences (Graz) AT BERTHOMIEU Francis France Télécom R&D FR BOCK Stephan AUDI AG DE Borendal Johan Trustweaver FR BRYANT Charles Euro Banking Association GB CACCIA Andrea AITI IT CAVRARO Fabio InfoCert S.p.A. IT COLLET Gilles B2Boost s.a. BE CONTE Antonio European Commission - DG ENTR/D4 BE DECHAMPS Alain CEN/IBD BE DESMEYTERE Isabelle VAT Forum BE DUBOIS Eric Accelya France FR EL-KHOURY Mounir Scarlet BE ENGEL-FLECHSIG Stefan CEN/WS eInvoicing2 DE FREYSTATTER Werner Basware FI GAETHOFS Danny Atos Origin NL GRANGARD Anders GS1 BE HEMMERLING Marc ABBL - Association des Banques et Banquiers LU Luxembourg

HOHENSTEIN Hubert TecCom GmbH DE HOJKA Paul UK payments association GB KUIPERS Joost The Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration NL MATT Wolfgang Hilti Corporation DE

MOCK Werner VDA DE NICHOLSON Lynn B2Boost BE NISBETT Tony IBM/EDIFICE GB ORFILA Benoit Atos Origin BE POTGIESER Peter Royal Bank Scotland NL SALO Jari TIEKE FI SAUTEREAU Cyrille Deskom FR SCHMANDT Phillip OFS Portal US SCHRADER Olaf ARIBA DE SEGARRA Santiago Spanish Tax Agency ES SKULASON Bergthor NITA DK



Name Company Country SORRENTINO Fabio CBI Consortium IT SPUND Benjamin STS Group BE THORNTON Kevin HMRC GB VAN DALEN Leen Equens SE NL VAN DEN AKKER Gertjan NEN NL VAN DER LINDEN Oliver Crossgate AG DE VAN DER VALK Christiaan Trust Weaver FR WALLIS Dave OFS Portal GB Walther Jörg Odette International DE WEIDENBACH Dirk xft GmbH DE ZWART Rob Ricoh Nederland B.V. NL
