In this column Bill Pugsley (Atlas Products country manager for Ireland and BASDA general council member) offers some insights into the European e-invoicing standardisation debate. He asks why a new European “standard” for e-invoicing is needed. This may take years to develop. Whereas the existing BASDA eBis-XML messaging standards have been around since the late 1990s? And the GS1 (Global Standard One) system of standards have been working successfully since the late 1970’s.


