Information for transmission to other invoice recipients

In the interest of benefiting from synergies, the features required for submitting e-Invoices within the scope of the e-Invoice clearing service are also to be made available to other public sector agencies (e.g. provinces, municipalities, cities). At present, contracting partners are not obliged to submit e-Invoices, for example, to provinces, cities or municipalities.

The provision of a central technical system as well as one single mode of submission for e-Invoices to the entire public sector is to give contracting partners the opportunity to use their available e-Invoicing solutions (developed for the federal government) for a broader group of recipients, thereby lowering their administrative costs even more. The parties of other invoice recipients will be integrated in a step-by-step manner.

The EU Directive 2014/55/EU obliges all Member States to ensure that contracting authorities and contracting entities are unable to refuse the acceptance of electronic invoices since April 18^th 2019. With the provision of the process of the federal solution for other invoice recipients the technical prerequisites for the rapid and simple implementation on this EU-directive are already in place now. An obligation for the contracting partners for the transmission of e-Invoices to other public sector agencies does not arise thereby. According to the BVergG 2018, non-primary purchasers need to have to implement the regulation until 12 months later, i.e. by 18 April 2020.