On their official website xeinkauf.de, the German Office for the Coordination of IT Standards (KoSIT) in the public sector has published updates to two of their leading standards for e-Invoicing and electronic ordering.
XRechnung 3.0.2 is a maintenance release including a few corrections as well as editorial changes to the specification texts. Specifically, this updates corrects the cardinalities of BG-27 (Invoice Line Allowances), BG-28 (Invoice Line Charges) to “optional multiple” in BG-25 (Invoice Line) and BT-26 (Preceding Invoice issue date) to “at most once”. These changes increase alignment with UBL, EN 16931 and Peppol and naturally do affect the results of validations. Therefore, timely implementation of corresponding syntax checking is recommended immediately as its validity starts from 2.7.2024 to avoid falsely rejecting now valid XRechnung invoice instances.
KoSIT has announced in March 2024 already to keep the normative content of XRechnung 3.0 stable this year, keeping the specification unchanged until 31.1.2025 at least.
In e-Procurement, the XBestellung specification is a profile of BIS order only with its transactional model Order Transaction. The previously published specification version 0.8 (3.8.2021) remains essentially unchanged and is simply designated “version 1.0” (as of 26.01.2024 already). XBestellung is designed to be as compatible as possible with the Peppol standards in use, to the extent of refraining to require neither its own Customization and Profile IDs in favor of the standard Peppol Identifiers for Order Only nor publishing its own set of validation artifacts. The standard is currently used in the Coordinated Project for Electronic Procurement (“Kooperationsprojekt Elektronische Beschaffung“) in the public sector.
