E-invoices in July

2005-06-29

The regulation governing e-invoices will come into force in July. The Finance Ministry has finished its consultation, and the draft regulation is ready, according to Jaroslaw Neneman, the deputy minister of finance, quoted by Puls Biznesu. The regulation is intended to make e-invoices more popular in Poland and thus to speed up the logistics procedures and reduce costs. The Ministry has been working on the regulation for months, as there was disagreement over the electronic signature issue. The Ministry finally decided to incorporate the obligation to use a secure electronic signature into the regulation. This was opposed by the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). PIIT claims that this method of introducing e-invoices will be impracticable, because of the high costs of obtaining a secure e-signature, as there are only four companies which provide such signatures. Waclaw Iszkowski, the president of PIIT, said, in Puls Biznesu, that he hopes to convince the ministry to reverse the decision. The Chamber’s efforts are being supported by the banking industry, along with the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Iszkowski stated that companies should be allowed to choose whether to use a secure e-signature or just an ordinary one.

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