German ICT industry association Bitkom encourages their businesses members to adopt the ZUGFeRD standard for electronic invoicing, says Heise Online. Bitkom wants the EU to promote the take-up of ZUGFeRD.
ZUGFeRD is based on the XML-Format Cross Industry Invoice developed by the United Nations’ CEFACT. These automated processable XML data can be embedded into human readable PDF/A-3- documents.