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We inform you that the updates related to the November Release 2024 of OpenPeppol and other modifications related to the Italian context have been published, the entire release notes are available at the following addresses:

• Order only;
• Ordering;
• Order Agreement;
• Despatch Advice;
• Billing.

These updates will be mandatory starting from 17th February 2025, nevertheless we advise to implement these changes in time and to download the schematron for the validation of the updated documents.

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 16:00 on Friday 25 october 2024.

During this period, the PA Single PA may not be available and therefore orders may not be delivered.

Notice is hereby given that on August 26, 2024, the updates related to the May Release 2024 of OpenPeppol, which was highlighted through the notice published on June 28, 2024, became effective.

The technical specifications currently in effect are available at:

• Billing;
• Other processes (Order Only, Ordering, Order Agreement, Despatch Advice).

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 16:00 on Friday 26 july 2024.

During this period, the PA Single PA may not be available and therefore orders may not be delivered.

We inform you that the updates related to the May Release 2024 of OpenPeppol have been published, the entire release notes are available at the following addresses:

• Order only;
• Ordering;
• Order Agreement;
• Despatch Advice;
• Billing.

These updates will be mandatory starting from 26th August 2024, nevertheless we advise to implement these changes in time and to download the schematron for the validation of the updated documents.

We inform you that, in the course of the second half of the year 2024, the Access Point and the Single SMP of the PA will be subject to scheduled maintenance. During these interventions, possible unavailability of the system could occur.

Specifically, maintenance interventions are scheduled always from 13.00 to 15.30, they will take place on the following dates:

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 15:30 on Friday 3 may 2024.

During this period it will not be possible to send and receive documents and, in general, the entire Single PA system of the PA will not be available.

Notice is hereby given that on February 26, 2024, updates related to the November Release 2023 of OpenPeppol and other changes related to the Italian context became effective, which were highlighted through the communication published on December 19, 2023.

The technical specifications currently in effect are available at:

• Invoicing;
• Other processes (Simple ordering, Complete ordering, Pre-arranged ordering, Transport document).

We inform you that from 02/26/2024, at the same time as the entry into force of the Peppol November Release 2023, the activation of blocking controls on DDTs is expected (change of severity from “WARNING” to “FATAL”) that do not comply with the Business rules for the Peppol Transport Document.

Consequently, any documents that do not comply with the Rules will be discarded by the schematron (validation XLST v.3.1.0).

Please note that the Business Rules for the DDT can be consulted in the next release environment and that AgID has made available the Peppol document validator tool which allows the sender of the DDT the possibility of independently verifying the conformity of an xml document to the current schematron, including those of the DDT.

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 15:30 on Friday 26 january 2024.

During this period it will not be possible to send and receive documents and, in general, the entire Single PA system of the PA will not be available.

We inform you that the updates related to the November Release 2023 of OpenPeppol and other modifications related to the Italian context have been published, whose entire release notes are available at the following addresses:

• Order only;
• Ordering;
• Order Agreement;
• Despatch Advice;
• Billing.

The original content released by OpenPeppol is available here.

These updates will be mandatory starting from 26th February 2024, nevertheless we advise to implement these changes in time and to download the schematron for the validation of the updated documents.

Please note the publication on the website OpenPeppol eDEC Specifications of the Reporting Specifications required by OpenPeppol to Service Providers pursuant to paragraph 9.4.8 of the Agreement signed between the Service Providers Peppol and the Peppol Authority italian.

The reporting activities will concern the sending to the Operating Office of OpenPeppol of statistical data, related to the exchange of documents on the AP they manage (Transaction Statistics Reporting v.1.0.0) and the End User Reporting (End User Statistics v.1.0.1).

Specifications will become mandatory as of January 1, 2024. This means that the first statistical data collection period will cover the month of January 2024, resulting in the sending of the first reports in early February 2024.

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 15:30 on Friday 28 july 2023. During this period it will not be possible to send and receive documents and, in general, the entire Single PA system of the PA will not be available.

We inform you that the updates related to the May Release 2023 of OpenPeppol have been published. These updates include several changes, whose entire release notes are available at the following addresses:

• Order only;
• Ordering;
• Order Agreement;
• Despatch Advice;
• Billing.

The original content released by OpenPeppol is available here.

These updates will be mandatory starting from 7th August 2023, nevertheless we advise to implement these changes in time and to download the schematron for the validation of the updated documents.

On 13/06/2023 the new release of the Peppol BIS3 Invoicing Specification was released which implements version 2.3 of the Technical Rules of the Revenue Agency relating to the management of European invoices published on 15/05/2023, in relation to the Provision 99370 published on 18/04/2019, whose release note is published at this address.

As previously communicated ( news 31 January 2022: Expiration of codes 9907 (Tax Code) and 9906 (VAT number) ) the Peppol Participant IDs 9906 and 9907 have been deprecated and replaced by codes 0211 and 0210 respectively. It was also requested to proceed with the registration of the active Participant IDs still certified with the 9906 and 9907 schemes with the new 0211 and 0210 schemes and with the subsequent deregistration of the old Participant IDs on the SML/SMP.

As known in version 8.4 of the Peppol Code list, the codes 9906 and 9907 have been removed and therefore we ask you to verify that on your SMP all the registered Participant IDs with the old codes 9906 and 9907 have been eliminated and that the active Participant IDs are register exclusively with the new codes 0211 and 0210. In case of need for updating, we remind you that this is urgent and that it is necessary to inform customers.

We inform you that AP Unico of the PA will be subject to a technical maintenance intervention from about 13 to 15:30 on Friday 28 April 2023 During this period it will not be possible to send and receive documents and, in general, the entire Single PA system of the PA will not be available.

We inform you that on 06 February 2023 the updates relating to the November Release 2022 of OpenPeppol became effective, which was highlighted through the communication published on 19 December 2022. The technical specifications currently in force are available at the addresses:

• Billing;
• Other processes (simple ordering, complete ordering, pre-agreed ordering, transport document).

The innovations introduced with the November Release 2022 are described in the Release Notes relating to the single process, available at the addresses:

It is recalled that, on the basis of paragraph 9.4.8 of the Agreement signed between the Peppol Service Providers and the national Peppol Authority, the Service Providers are obliged to make available to the Peppol Coordinating Authority of OpenPeppol, on a monthly basis, a set of data statistics that allow you to monitor the operations performed on the Peppol network, identify and manage risks and problems within the network itself.

Based on the information available to date, the reporting activities of the SPs towards OpenPeppol will presumably be launched during the third quarter of 2023 and will concern the periodic collection of data relating to the volumes of incoming and outgoing transactions of the Access Point of the SP.

AgID will provide further information on this as soon as they are available.

We inform you that the updates relating to the November Release 2022 of OpenPeppol have been published. These updates contain several changes, whose complete release notes are available at the following addresses:

• Order Only;
• Ordering;
• Order Agreement;
• Despatch Advice;
• Billing.

The original content released by OpenPeppol is available here.

These updates will be mandatory from 06 February 2023, nevertheless it is advisable to implement these changes in time and to download the schematron for the validation of the updated documents.

On 25/11/2022 the new release of the Peppol BIS3 Invoicing Specification was released which implements version 2.2 of the Technical Rules of the Italian Revenue Agency relating to the management of European invoices published on 16/11/2022, in relation to the Provision 99370 published on 04/18/2019. Some changes present in this latest version of the Technical Rules of the Italian Revenue Agency were already contained in the Peppol BIS3 Invoicing Specification published on 04/21/2022.

We inform you that the Peppol Authority has updated the qualification process for Service Providers who intend to qualify as Peppol Access Point (AP), here the link to the detail page.

The new process provides that the test and interoperability verification phases required for the accreditation process of Peppol Access Points are carried out independently by the Service Provider through the use of the new Onboarding Platform, made available on 30/05/2022.

We inform you that the updates relating to the May Release 2022 of OpenPeppol are published, containing a series of changes whose complete release notes are available at the addresses:

• Simple Ordering
• Complete Ordering
• Pre-agreed ordering
• Transport document
• Billing

The Italian Peppol BIS 3 specifications for electronic invoicing are published in compliance with version 2.1 of the Technical Rules relating to the management of invoices pursuant to art. 3, paragraph 1, Legislative Decree 148/2018 of the Revenue Agency in force from 1 April 2022.

The new version of the Technical Rules is the result of the collaboration between the Revenue Agency and AgID with the contribution of UNINFO experts and aims to make the use of the European invoice fully consistent with the needs of the Italian context. The Peppol BIS 3 specifications for Italy allow the native use of the international standard OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) for the invoicing process in the cross-border and domestic context, in compliance with national obligations regarding the transmission of invoices to the Exchange System (SDI) of the Revenue Agency.

This is to remind you that, in compliance with what was announced in the communication “Expiration validity of codes 9907 (Tax Code) and 9906 (VAT number)”, published on 8 November 2021 through the News service made available to the Peppol Authority available at the following link, on 31/01/2022 the coexistence between the old Peppol Participant IDs (9906 - 9907) and the new codes that replaced them (0211 and 0210 respectively) will end.

We inform you that, in the course of 2022, the Access Point and the Single SMP of the PA will be subject to scheduled maintenance. During these interventions, possible unavailability of the system could occur.

Specifically, maintenance interventions are scheduled always from 13.00 to 14.00, they will take place on the following dates:

Users of the PEPPOL network are informed that, as part of the 2021 Christmas holidays, on 24 December and 31 December the technical assistance service will only be operational until 13.00.

Furthermore, the service will not be available for the whole day of 7 January 2022.

Starting from November 15th, exclusive use will be mandatory of the codes 0210 (Tax Code) and 0211 (VAT number) that replace the previous Italian temporary codes 9907 (CF) and 9906 (VAT number) for registered electronic addresses (endpoint) and for the identification of business parts (EAS codelist).

On Saturday, May 15, 2021, the central Peppol Access Point of the Public Administration and the SMP (Service Metadata Publisher) of the Italian Peppol Authority will migrate to a new system infrastructure.

To allow for the technological update, a service interruption is expected from 7am on May 15 to 2pm on the same day, during which time window the entire AP-AGID system will not be available for transmission or receipt of documents.

The Peppol Authority supports the use of the Italian specification of the Peppol Order Agreement.

The Peppol BIS 3 Order Agreement profile has been defined in accordance with the Peppol specifications and the NSO Technical Rules (RGS-MEF) valid for the Italian context.

The General Accounting Office of the State has published an update to the NSO Technical Rules, releasing version 4.7.

On November 12, 2020, the OpenPeppol consortium published a corrigendum to the autumn release (Post Award BIS Fall Release).

The Corrigendum was implemented by AGID as Peppol Authority with reference to the technical specifications used in the Italian domain and is available here, to supplement what was already published on November 6, 2020.

The OpenPEPPOL consortium has published the Post Award BIS Fall Release of the technical documentation covering all PEPPOL profiles.

This release has been acknowledged by AGID as PEPPOL Authority with reference to the technical specifications used in the Italian domain and, starting from today November 6, 2020, they are available for consultation at: https://peppol-docs.agid.gov.it/.

Following are the dates for 2020 Q3 and Q4 in which the technical support for users of the PEPPOL network will not be available.

• August 14, Friday
• December 7, Monday
• December 24, Thursday
• December 31, Thursday

OpenPEPPOL has notified the release of new PEPPOL BIS 3.0 updates to the Post-Award Community (PoAC). We kindly ask you to review it by consulting the Release notes for version 3.0.4.

The Italian PEPPOL Authority launched a consultation process on the PEPPOL BIS Despatch Advice 3.0 (DDT), from 16 to 27 March 2020, in order to establish the national PEPPOL standard for the Despatch Advice.

AgID, as Italian PEPPOL Authority, is supporting the migration of post-award PEPPOL profiles adopted nation-wide, as established by the OpenPEPPOL migration plan.

Last November 5, 2019, AgID as PEPPOL Authority for Italy, has convened a meeting of the PEPPOL service providers

Following the official communication of OpenPEPPOL related to migration on PEPPOL AS4, has been started a verification of the adaptation activities of the APs based on AS2.