Commission Recommendation 1994/820/EC October 1994, proposed revision with the requirements of Directive 2001/115/EC, present day e-commerce practices and revised definition of EDI electronic data interchange
The scope is to carry out two Recommendations of the eInvoicing Focus Group, namely; a) To bring Commission Recommendation 1994/820/EC October 1994 up to date with the requirements of Directive 2001/115/EC and present day e-Commerce practices {DG Enterprise, European Commission} b) The term 'EDI' in the Directive 2001/115/EC should have the widest possible meaning of formatted exchanges, not dependent on a specific 'technology' (EDIFACT, X-12, XML, etc..), nor limited to specific international, national or sector standards.