Format
XRechnung
Germany's standard for e-invoicing to public contracting authorities: a CIUS (plus an extension) of EN 16931, carried as an XML data set in UBL or CII.
Key points
- Maintained by KoSIT (Coordination Office for IT Standards) on behalf of the IT Planning Council; KoSIT is also the German Peppol Authority.
- Version 3.0 has been in force since 1 Feb 2024 and stays in force until at least 31 Jul 2027; a pre-release of XRechnung 4.0 was published in September 2026.
- The federal central invoice platform (ZRE) requires XRechnung; invoices can be received via Peppol and are addressed with a Leitweg-ID.
- Can also be used for German B2B e-invoices, which must comply with EN 16931 from 2025.
Countries using it
Countries whose official sources name this format (or a format based on it), in our data.
Sources
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