Mandatory e-invoicing – a great success Rikke Hougaard Zeberg Deputy Director Danish Agency for Digitisation 1

Danish e-Government strategy The mission is to modernize the public sector No more printed forms or letters: 80 pct of all communication digital by 2015 Digital mail box to all companies and citizens Building on years of valuable experiences e.g. Mandatory electronic invoicing

Mandatory since No paper invoices accepted by the public buyers in Denmark 70 percent of all Danish companies are affected Changing workflows took a while Today administrative costs are down by 80 percent Many valuable learning points during the implementation process

It takes two to tango.. The small companies stuck to scanning A solution was needed and put in place – NemHandel The market now creates NemHandel solutions meeting the needs of SMEs Today both sides of the table benefits

A taste for more… E-invoicing has proved its value Increased the willingness to do more Demand for end-to-end procurement is increasing Next step: a European solution to work cross border OpenPEPPOL is the obvious choice