The European Commission's Multi-stakeholder Forum on eInvoicing unanimously approved a Recommendation calling for the Universal Business Language (UBL) Invoice to be considered in the European Standard on core invoice semantic. The Recommendation names OASIS as one of the "international organisations working on data models that cover the requirements of different industries and sectors; they are recognized and accepted globally and their standards are adopted by many actors within both the private and public sector".

The Universal Business Language V2.1 OASIS Standard, approved 04 November 2013, is available (at no charge) here:
HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html
ZIP: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.zip

The ISO/IEC 19845:2015 International Standard, published 15 December 2015, is the 2013 UBL v2.1 verbatim document with an ISO/IEC cover page, and is currently available at:  http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66370

The OASIS membership ballot for UBL 2.1 OASIS Standard has satisfied the minimum 15% approval with no negative votes:

Yes     77     100%
No       0       0%
Eligible companies who have voted:      77 of 306 25%
Eligible companies who have abstained:   0 of 306 0%
Eligible companies who have not voted: 229 of 306 75%

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2527

From:  Jon Bosak, Co-chair OASIS UBL Technical Committee
Date:  2013-10-22

Five years of development to extend the OASIS Universal Business Language wrap up this month in a vote among the OASIS member organizations to approve the latest revision, UBL 2.1, as an OASIS Standard.

SUMMARY

The OASIS UBL 2.1 Candidate OASIS Standard public review ended October 15, 2013 with no comments requesting changes or describing errors.  This is a tremendous achievement and is evidence of no-one finding technical faults in the work product.  Over five public reviews the issues discovered were addressed and the end result is shown to be acceptable.

This qualifies the specification to progress to the next phase of OASIS membership voting on OASIS UBL 2.1 becoming an OASIS Standard.

Mr. Mikkel Heppe Brun, VP of Global Strategy for Tradeshift, has created a three-part review of the draft EU directive on e-invoicing: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/e-procurement/e-in...

These make for interesting reading:

http://blog.tradeshift.com/failing-to-deliver-the-draft-eu-directive-on-...

http://blog.tradeshift.com/failing-to-deliver-part-2-the-draft-e-invoici...

http://blog.tradeshift.com/failing-deliver-part-3-ideal-e-invoicing-dire...

OASIS has announced the 60-day public review starting today, August 15, 2013, ending Tuesday, October 15, 2013:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201308/msg00000.html

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

Today OASIS TC Administration announced the availability of Committee Specification 1 of OASIS Universal Business Language Version 2.1:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201307/msg00009.html

The standardization process continues with the preparation of a 60-day public review and then a 14-day membership ballot to promote the Committee Specification to be an OASIS Standard as was accomplished for UBL 2.0.

On June 22, 2013 the UBL Technical Committee begins the week-long vote for Committee Specification Draft 5 of Universal Business Language Version 2.1 dated 19 June 2013 [1] with Non-Material Changes [2] to be a Committee Specification.

The long-awaited successor to UBL 2.0 (2006) has begun its fourth public review. See https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201305/msg00021.html. Changes from the third public review draft include minor corrections to the documentation and several substantive additions to address issues raised on behalf of the European Commission. The review period ends 8 June 2013 at 23:59 GMT.

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