Electronic Invoicing in Public Procurement: Initial Appraisal of the Commission's Impact Assessment

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying its Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on electronic invoicing in public procurement (COM (2013) 449), which it submitted in June 2013. Once the proposal enters into force, the Commission would request the relevant European standardisation organisation (CEN - the Committee for European Standardization) to draw up a European standard for electronic invoicing, which market operators would be free to adopt and contracting authorities would be obliged to accept.