einvoices-history.json

{
  "title": {
    "media": "Media",
    "text": {
      "headline": "Electronic invoices timeline",
      "text": "A timeline of how electronic invoicing is introduced in Europe. JSON file on https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/core/blob/master/einvoices-history.json for the great MPL <a href='https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3'>Knightlabs Timeline</a>.<br>v1.4 2021-12-06 by Jochen Stärk, Mustangproject.org <br> <br>License: Public domain. Feel free to send pull requests. I'm e.g. looking for ZUGFeRD Roadshow dates and FNFE cooperation events."
    }
  },
  "eras": [
    {
      "start_date": {
        "year": 1977
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2006
      },
      "text": {
        "headline": "EDI"
      }
    },
    {
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2006
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2018
      },
      "text": {
        "headline": "PDF"
      }
    },
    {
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2024
      },
      "text": {
        "headline": "Structured"
      }
    }
  ],
  "events": [
    {
      "unique_id": 1,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 1977
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2020
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "EDI-Standards in Germany",
        "text": "Andreas Pelekies mentioned on the fourth annual FeRD conference in 2018 that the first EDI standards in Germany evolved in 1977 (https://www.ferd-net.de/upload/Pelekies_Aktueller_Stand_von_ZUGFeRD_2.0_4._FeRD.pdf)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 2,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 1999
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ebXML",
        "text": "UN/CEFACT publishes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EbXML, the predecessor of UBL"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 3,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2004,
        "month": 11
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2006
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "UBL 1.0",
        "text": "OASIS publishes UBL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_Language"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 4,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2005
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Denmark",
        "text": "Denmark makes electronic B2G invoices (in a UBL based standard called OIOUBL) obligatory and saves 100 mio € per year (https://www.batch.co.uk/web/images/PDFs/EU-report.pdf)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 5,
      "start_date": {
        "day": 12,
        "month": 12,
        "year": 2006
      },
      "end_date": {
        "day": 4,
        "month": 11,
        "year": 2013
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "UBL 2.0",
        "text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_Language 2.0 is released"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 6,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2008
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Sweden",
        "text": "Sweden follows Denmark in mandatorizing eInvoices for central government agencies"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 7,
      "start_date": {
        "month": 11,
        "year": 2009
      },
      "end_date": {
        "day": 16,
        "month": 4,
        "year": 2014
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "European legislative process",
        "text": "European legislation advances from a report of the Expert Group on e-Invoicing (https://www.batch.co.uk/web/images/PDFs/EU-report.pdf) to the Directive 2014/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32014L0055"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 8,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2010
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Spain",
        "text": "Mandatory for Public administration suppliers (invoices higher than EUR 5 000)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 9,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2010
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Finland",
        "text": "eInvoicing is mandatory through the Finnish Government Programme since 2010"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 10,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2010,
        "month": 3
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "FeRD founded",
        "text": "The Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland (FeRD) is founded"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 11,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 2,
        "day": 5
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 2,
        "day": 9
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of ZUGFeRD 1.0RC",
        "text": "In the context of the Cebit fair the 1.0 specification release candidate of ZUGFeRD is released in german language"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 12,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 4
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "UBL 2.1",
        "text": "UBL 2.1, the later ISO standard, is released"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 13,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Austria",
        "text": "B2G e-invoicing becomes mandatory in Austria"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 14,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Italy",
        "text": "B2G eInvoicing is mandatory since 2014 (https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eInvoicing+in+Italy)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 15,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 3
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Konik 0.1.0",
        "text": "First release of the Konik open-source Java ZUGFeRD library"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 16,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 22
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject",
        "text": "First release of the open-source Java ZUGFeRD library Mustangproject"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 17,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 6,
        "day": 25
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 1.0",
        "text": "Release of final ZUGFeRD 1.0 specification (in german)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 18,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 7,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Article in the german iX Magazine 8/14",
        "text": "Vadim Bauer from Konik writes https://www.heise.de/ix/heft/Fakturierungsautomat-2268413.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 19,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 11
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "1st annual FeRD conference",
        "text": "The FeRD meets at the Ministry of Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 20,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 29
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of ZUGFeRD 1.0.1 specification",
        "text": "more precisely: Corrigendum to 1.0"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 21,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2014,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 7
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.1",
        "text": "Mustangproject 1.1 is released"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 22,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Slovenia",
        "text": "B2G eInvoicing is mandatory in Slovenia since 2015 "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 23,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 19
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of ZUGFeRD 1.0 specification (in english)",
        "text": "Previously it was available only in german"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 24,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 21
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 22
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "1st developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the first ZUGFeRD developer conference in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 25,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 9
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "2nd developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the second ZUGFeRD developer conference in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 26,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Official Launch of zugferd-community.net",
        "text": "The FeRDMC launches the website among others for ZUGFeRD developer days participants"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 27,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 15
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.2",
        "text": "The open-source Java ZUGFeRD library Mustangproject releases Version 1.2"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 28,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 5
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 6
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "3rd developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the third ZUGFeRD developer conference in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 29,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 12
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "UBL becomes ISO Standard",
        "text": "UBL 2.1 becomes ISO/IEC 19845:2015"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 30,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2015,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 2
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD/Mustangproject is awarded the OSBAR",
        "text": "Mustangproject is awarded the first prize (award in gold) of the Open Source Business Association at the Open! conference in Stuttgart"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 31,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 3
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "160 supporters",
        "text": "The list of supporters counts 160 supporters from 7 countries"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 32,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 15
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.3",
        "text": "Mustangpproject releases version 1.3"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 33,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 6,
        "day": 20
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "199 supporters",
        "text": "http://www.ferd-net.de/zugferd/unterstuetzerliste/index.html counts 199 supporters"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 34,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 24
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 25
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "4th developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the fourth ZUGFeRD developer conference in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 35,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 8
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "3rd annual FeRD conference in Berlin",
        "text": "The FeRD meets at the Ministry of Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 36,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "France",
        "text": "Gradual introduction of electronic invoicing,<ul><li>01/01/2017 for any company including more than 5000 employees</li><li>01/01/2018 for any company including 250 to 5000 employees</li><li>01/01/2019 for any company including 10 to 250 employees</li><li>01/01/2020 for any company including less than 10 employees</li></ul>"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 37,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Netherlands",
        "text": "B2G eInvoicing is mandatory since January 2017 for central government agencies and voluntary for sub-central government. (https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eInvoicing+in+The+Netherlands)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 38,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Official launch of the ZUGFeRD User Group",
        "text": "FeRDMC(?) launches a committee to be able to adapt to the electronic invoicing requirements of different industry sectors"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 39,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Estonia",
        "text": "Electronic invoices become mandatory for the whole public sector"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 40,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 4
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Amendment to the german e-invoing act (E-Rechnungsverordnung)",
        "text": "The amendment is published in Germany's official journal Bundesgesetzblatt 19/2017 https://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start.xav?startbk=Bundesanzeiger_BGBl#__bgbl__%2F%2F*%5B%40attr_id%3D%27bgbl117s0770.pdf%27%5D__1516912634862"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 41,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 10
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of XRechnung 1.0 (Specification)",
        "text": "XRechnung, the german national dialect, i.e. a EN16931 CIUS, is published https://www.xoev.de/die_standards/xrechnung/xrechnung_versionen/xrechnung_version_1_0-14771"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 42,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 11
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.4",
        "text": "The open source java ZUGFeRD library is releases Version 1.4"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 43,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 6,
        "day": 30
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "FNFE Publishes Factur-X Beta 1",
        "text": "The french Forum National de la Factur Electronique publishes ZUGFeRD as Factur-X"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 44,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 7,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Lithuania",
        "text": "B2G eInvoicing is mandatory since 1 July 2017 (https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eInvoicing+in+Lithuania)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 45,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 7,
        "day": 28
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "1st release of factur-x",
        "text": "The open-source Python library for ZUGFeRD/Factur-X is released http://www.akretion.com/blog/akretion-publishes-opensource-factur-x-python-lib"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 46,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 8,
        "day": 25
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Public review of ZUGFeRD 2.0,Part 1 (EN16931)",
        "text": "A ZUGFeRD 2.0 draft is released as public preview version http://www.ferd-net.de/aktuelles/meldungen/kommentierung-zugferd-2.0.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 47,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 6
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "German e-invoing act (E-Rechnungsverordnung)",
        "text": "(https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Gesetzestexte/e-rechnungs-verordnung.pdf)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 48,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Adoption of EN16931 profile of Public review of ZUGFeRD 2.0,Part 1",
        "text": "The public preview gets <a href='http://www.ferd-net.de/aktuelles/meldungen/verabschiedung-zugferd-2.0_profil-en16931.html'>adopted</a> but is not yet officially published"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 49,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 30
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "FNFE Publishes Factur-X Beta 2",
        "text": "The french Forum National de la Factur Electronique publishes the second beta of ZUGFeRD/Factur-X"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 50,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 13
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Change E-Rechnungsverordnung act Bundesgesetzblatt 68/2017",
        "text": "Amendment to the e-invoicing act (E-Rechnungsverordnung) is published in Germany's official journal Bundesgesetzblatt 68/2017"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 51,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 27
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "German E-Rechnungsverordnung Phase 1",
        "text": "electronic invoices to be accepted by german authorities"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 52,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 29
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "308 officially listed ZUGFeRD supporters",
        "text": "http://www.ferd-net.de/zugferd/unterstuetzerliste/index.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 53,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 30
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.5",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 1.5"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 54,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 31
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "FNFE Publishes Factur-X 1.0",
        "text": "The french Forum National de la Factur Electronique publishes the final version of a ZUGFeRD 2.0 subset = Factur-X 1.0"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 55,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 11
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "4th annual FeRD conference in Berlin",
        "text": "See <a href='http://www.ferd-net.de/ressourcen/veroeffentlichungen/praesentationen-der-4.-ferd-konferenz.html'>slides</a> and <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0ngW5QP6o&feature=youtu.be'>footage</a>"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 56,
      "start_date": {
        "day": 27,
        "month": 11,
        "year": 2018
      },
      "end_date": {
        "day": 18,
        "month": 4,
        "year": 2019
      },
      "text": {
        "headline": "European transition period for central govermental bodies",
        "text": "according to https://www.ferd-net.de/upload/Hauschild_Europische_Richtlinie_zur_elektronischen_Rechnungsstellung_bei_ffentlichen_Auftrgen_4._FeRD_Konferenz.pdf "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 57,
      "start_date": {
        "day": 27,
        "month": 11,
        "year": 2018
      },
      "end_date": {
        "day": 18,
        "month": 4,
        "year": 2020
      },
      "text": {
        "headline": "Transition period for subcentral govermental bodies",
        "text": "according to https://www.ferd-net.de/upload/Hauschild_Europische_Richtlinie_zur_elektronischen_Rechnungsstellung_bei_ffentlichen_Auftrgen_4._FeRD_Konferenz.pdf "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 58,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Belgium",
        "text": "E-invoices mandatory on federal level for B2G invoices exceeding 135000€"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 59,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 22
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject published the 2nd article in the german iX Magazine 4/18",
        "text": "<a href='https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/4/1522358420293107'>B2G, B2B and B2C aspects of ZUGFeRD 2.0 and XRechnung</a>"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 60,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 26
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "6th ZUGFeRD Developer Days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the sixth ZUGFeRD developer conference in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 61,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 17
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "New online validator",
        "text": " https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV/ becomes available in version 0.4.4 as http://validator.zugferd.org"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 62,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Germany: B2G e-invoices now mandatory",
        "text": "E-Rechnungsverordnung Phase 2: paper and non-hybrid PDF invoices to be rejected by german authorities"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 63,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 7,
        "day": 10
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2 EN16931 profile public preview",
        "text": "Public preview (http://web.archive.org/web/20180409215558/http://www.ferd-net.de:80/aktuelles/meldungen/kommentierung-zugferd-2.0.html) and approval (https://www.ferd-net.de/aktuelles/meldungen/verabschiedung-zugferd-2.0_profil-en16931.html) of the EN16931 profile of ZUGFeRD 2.0 "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 64,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 26
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 12
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2 public preview",
        "text": "Public preview (https://www.ferd-net.de/aktuelles/meldungen/entwurf-der-spezifikation-zugferd-2.0-zur-oeffentlichen-kommentierung.html) of ZUGFeRD 2.0 "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 65,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 10
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "New online validator version",
        "text": " https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV/ becomes available in version 0.5.0"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 66,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2017,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 30
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of XRechnung 1.1 (Specification)",
        "text": "A new version of XRechnung, the german national dialect, i.e. a EN16931 CIUS, is published"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 67,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 20
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Germany launches National Invoicing Platform (Zentralen Rechnungseingangsplattform)",
        "text": "https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/moderne-verwaltung/verwaltungsmodernisierung/e-beschaffung/e-beschaffung-artikel.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 68,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 18
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 31
      },
      "group": "Adoption",
      "text": {
        "headline": "EU commision and CEN agree to make 16931-1:2017 and 16931-2:2017 available for free",
        "text": "(german) https://www.zugferd-community.net/infothek/kostenloser_zugang_zum_semantischen_datenmodell_und_den_syntaxen_des_europaeischen_standards_fuer_einvoicing_en_16931_vereinbart"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 69,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 24
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 2,
        "day": 25
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "1st Factur-X Hackathon",
        "text": "The FNFE organizes the first Factur-X developer conference in Paris, France"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 70,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 2,
        "day": 3
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.6",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 1.6 supporting Factur-X"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 71,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 11
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2.0",
        "text": "Release of the final ZUGFeRD 2.0 specification (in german)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 72,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 5
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 1.7",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 1.7 supporting ZUGFeRD 2.0"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 73,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 31
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "New online validator version 0.7",
        "text": " https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV/ becomes available in version 0.7.0 supporting ZUGFeRD 2.0"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 74,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 7,
        "day": 8
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "New online validator version 0.8",
        "text": " https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV/ 0.8.0 introduces schema checks (not only schematron) "
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 75,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 26
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 27
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "7th developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the seventh ZUGFeRD developer conference (ZUGFeRD-Entwicklertage) in Bielefeld, Germany"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 76,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 15
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2.0.1",
        "text": "Release of the ZUGFeRD 2.0.1 correction (in german)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 77,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2018,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 18
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of XRechnung 1.2 (Specification)",
        "text": "A new version of XRechnung, the german national dialect, i.e. a EN16931 CIUS, is published"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 78,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2016,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Franco-German conference on digitalisation",
        "text": "https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/service/driving-digitalisation-forward-in-europe-485574"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 79,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 24
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2.1, Factur-X 1.0.05",
        "text": "The french Forum National de la Factur Electronique publishes the final version of Factur-X 1.0.05 simulaneously to the german AWV publishing ZUGFeRD 2.1 (in german and english)"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 80,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 24
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "New version of online validator",
        "text": " https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV/ becomes available in version 0.9.0 supporting Factur-X 1.0.05 and ZUGFeRD 2.1"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 81,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 6,
        "day": 30
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Release of XRechnung 2.0 (Specification)",
        "text": "A new version of XRechnung, the german national dialect, i.e. a EN16931 CIUS, is published, with a two profiles: standard and extensions"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 82,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "Adoption",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mandatory B2B e-invoicing in Italy",
        "text": "Italy becomes the first european nation to <a href='https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/download/attachments/68331443/CEF%20eInvoicing_2018-12-04%20Stanziale%20-%20Brussels%20%285%29.pdf'>introduce mandatory B2B e-invoicing</a>."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 83,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 24
      },
      "end_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 24
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "8th developer days",
        "text": "The FeRDMC organizes the seventh ZUGFeRD developer conference (ZUGFeRD-Entwicklertage), due to Corona online"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 84,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2019,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 28
      },
      "group": "Adoption",
      "text": {
        "headline": "France publishes intention to make B2B e-invoicing mandatory",
        "text": "Pending EU permission, France wants to <a href='https://www.edicomgroup.com/en_US/news/13617-france-prepares-for-mandatory-b2b-e-invoicing.html'>introduce mandatory B2B e-invoicing</a> between 2023 and 2025."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 85,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "Adoption",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Order-X 1.0",
        "text": "Order-X 1.0 <a href='http://www.ferd-net.de/download-order-x'>is published</a> in german, english and french."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 86,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 11
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.0",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.0 integrating the validator, supporting a invoice class instead of only an interface, Maven Central and ZUGFeRD 2.1"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 87,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 19
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.1",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.1 supporting ZUGFeRD 2.1.1"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 87,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 5,
        "day": 20
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.2",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.2 capable of validating Order-X"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 88,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 4
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.3",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.3 capable of validating XR 2.1"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 89,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2013,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 5
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Gemeinsame Erklärung (Common Statement)",
        "text": "The German Minstry for Interior <a href='https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/veroeffentlichungen/2013/gemeinsame-erklaerung.html'>publishes a statement</a> that it will partner up with the Ministry of Economy in terms of ZUGFeRD"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 90,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 21
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "France's plans to introduce mandatory B2B-e-invoicing",
        "text": "Apparently,  <a href='https://www.edicomgroup.com/en_US/news/13617-france-prepares-for-mandatory-b2b-e-invoicing.html'>France is set to introduce mandatory B2B-e-invoicing in 2025</a>"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 91,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 6,
        "day": 17
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Study on mandatory B2B-e-Invoicing in Germany",
        "text": "The VER released a  <a href='https://rechnungsaustausch.org/rechtliches/ver-studie-digitalisierung-umsatzsteuer.htm'>study</a> if mandatory B2B-e-invoicing could and should be introduced in Germany"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 92,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2020,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 29
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Report on VAT fraud by the German Federal Audit Office",
        "text": "The German Federal Audit Office <a href='https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/240/1924000.pdf'>requested solutions</a> to VAT fraud"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 93,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 18
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Report by the Bundestag's research service",
        "text": "The research service of the Bundestag publishes <a href='https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/823290/f8b77df6af21563749ba537bb87e907a/WD-4-141-20-pdf-data.pdf'>what needed to be done</a> in order to introduce mandatory B2B-e-invoicing"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 94,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 18
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Request by a political party",
        "text": "The liberals de facto <a href='https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/265/1926534.pdf'>request</a> the introduction of mandatory B2B e-invoices"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 95,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2021,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 24
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Preparations for B2B e-invoice obligations enter the german coalition agreement",
        "text": "A federal reporting system on VAT which will be used for the creation, validation and forwarding of invoices is <a href='https://www.spd.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Koalitionsvertrag/Koalitionsvertrag_2021-2025.pdf'>to be created</a>."
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 96,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 2,
        "day": 10
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "The French Presidency’s ministerial conference on e-invoicing: Electronic invoicing: an instrument for the digital transformation of businesses &amp; government",
        "text": "<iframe width='560' height='315' src='https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/G28pmP2tRIU' title='YouTube video player' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen></iframe>"
      }
    },	
    {
      "unique_id": 97,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2G",
      "text": {
        "headline": "XBestellung 1.0",
        "text": "Release of a UBL based proposal for german B2G (or rather G2B) orders on the newly launched <a href='https://xeinkauf.de/xbestellung/'>XEinkauf</a> (XProcurement) homepage"
      }
    },
    
    {
      "unique_id": 98,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Germany requests exemption as per Art. 395 MwStSystRL",
        "text": "As mentioned <a href='https://www.ihk.de/chemnitz/recht-und-steuern/steuerinformationen-rechnungslegung/aktuelle-steuerpolitik/e-rechnungspflicht-fuer-inlaendische-b2b-umsaetze-5781150'>here</a>, Germany requested in November 2022 from the EU to be allowed to introduce B2B e-invoicing"
      }
    },	    
    {
      "unique_id": 99,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 14
      },
      "group": "Adoption",
      "text": {
        "headline": "French event 'Journée de la Facture Électronique 2023'",
        "text": "<iframe width='560' height='315' src='https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0ncZ-4BENRU' title='YouTube video player' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen></iframe>"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 100,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 18
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Germany starts discussion on a potential B2B e-invoicing introduction as per 2025",
        "text": "As mentioned <a href='https://www.ihk.de/chemnitz/recht-und-steuern/steuerinformationen-rechnungslegung/aktuelle-steuerpolitik/e-rechnungspflicht-fuer-inlaendische-b2b-umsaetze-5781150'>here</a>, the german government requests feedback from stakeholders on a potential introduction of mandatory domestic B2B e-invoicing as of 01.01.2025"
      }
    },
    
    {
      "unique_id": 101,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 1,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.4",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.4 capable of <a href='https://www.mustangproject.org/mustang-2-4-0-now-also-supports-orders/'>writing Order-X</a>"
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 102,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 7
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.5",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases version 2.5 <a href='https://www.mustangproject.org/mustang-2-5-0/'>upgrading to zf 2.2</a>, 2.5.1+: 1Lieferschein, xr 2.2 "
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 103,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 23
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.6",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases <a href='https://www.mustangproject.org/mustang-2-6-0-joyeux-noel/'>version 2.6</a> with Factur-X improvements and automated server tests  "
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 104,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 17
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.7",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases <a href='https://www.mustangproject.org/mustang-2-7-0/'>version 2.7</a> with english and french output and UBL input in factur-x visualization"
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 105,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 4,
        "day": 21
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Deliver-X Kickoff",
        "text": "Official <a href='https://www.zugferd-community.net/de/infothek/deliver-x_kickoff'>start of work on Deliver-X</a> standardization"
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 106,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 8,
        "day": 29
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Draft law on mandatory domestic B2B e-invoices in Germany",
        "text": "The EU has allowed Germany to introduce B2B e-invoices and the german government has approved the according legal act (changing it's deadline from 2025 to 2026) so the draft for the Wachstumschancengesetz, which will change the VAT law, is now a 'governmental draft', i.e. a <a href='https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Gesetzestexte/Gesetze_Gesetzesvorhaben/Abteilungen/Abteilung_IV/20_Legislaturperiode/2023-07-17-Wachstumschancengesetz/2-Regierungsentwurf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2'>Regierungsentwurf (pg 65, 66 and 243 refer to VAT)</a>.<a href='https://bit.ly/47CRz4G'>(background)</a>"
      }
    },	
    
    {
      "unique_id": 107,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 13
      },
      "group": "Open-Source",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Mustangproject 2.8",
        "text": "Mustangproject releases <a href='https://www.mustangproject.org/mustang-2-8-0/'>version 2.8</a> with first UBL read support"
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 108,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2011,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 12
      },
      "group": "Open Standards",
      "text": {
        "headline": "CWA 16356",
        "text": "The work of the CEN's <a href='https://de.slideshare.net/FrisodeJong/mug-core-cross-industry-invoice-european-message-implementation-guideline-cwa-16356'>CWA 16356</a> (Message User Group, MUG) later served as the basis for EN16931"
      }
    },{
      "unique_id": 109,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2023,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 14
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "French National E-Invoice Day 2023",
        "text": "<iframe width='560' height='315' src='https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0ncZ-4BENRU' title='YouTube video player' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen></iframe>"
      }
    },{
      "unique_id": 110,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 7
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "French National E-Invoice Day 2024",
        "text": "Videos and slides are <a href='https://fnfe-mpe.org/jfe24/'>on the FNFE homepage</a>"
      }
    },{
      "unique_id": 111,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 22
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "Germany adopts statutory domestic B2B-e-invoicing",
        "text": "The german Federal Council (Bundesrat) passed the <a href='https://www.recht.bund.de/bgbl/1/2024/108/VO.html'>law ('Wachstumschancengesetz'=Growth Opportunities Act)</a> on statutory domestic B2B e-invoicing which will ban paper and PDF invoices without Factur-X between german companies in 2028 at the latest (<a href='https://medium.com/@jochen.staerk/why-and-how-germany-bans-b2b-paper-invoices-a4c7977f314a'>background</a>)."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 112,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 12,
        "day": 8
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "European guideline Vat in the Digital Age (ViDA) drafted",
        "text": "The European Commission proposed <a href='https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/topnews/M-009199'>a draft guideline for a CTC on european B2B cross border invoices</a> ."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 113,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 11,
        "day": 5
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "EU Council ViDA Agreement",
        "text": "The EU Council <a href='https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/11/05/taxation-council-agrees-on-vat-in-the-digital-age-package/'>agreed</a> on ViDA for european cross border invoices <a href='https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONSIL:ST_14961_2024_INIT'>legal background</a>)."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 114,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 10,
        "day": 17
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "German financial authorities comment on Wachstumsschancengesetz",
        "text": "The German Ministery of Finance (Bundesministerium für Finanzen) published a (german) <a href='https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/BMF_Schreiben/Steuerarten/Umsatzsteuer/2024-10-15-einfuehrung-e-rechnung.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1'>official statement</a> regarding the Wachstumsschancengesetz entailing that e.g. Factur-X/ZUGFeRD, UBL and CII via email will be eligible invoices."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 115,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 8,
        "day": 29
      },
      "group": "B2B",
      "text": {
        "headline": "German goverment will not publish a free tool",
        "text": "Upon political request the the german government <a href='https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/127/2012742.pdf'>stated</a> that it will not publish a free tool or go campaigning for the e-invoice. It also confirms that the <a href='https://ao.bundesfinanzministerium.de/ao/2021/Anhaenge/BMF-Schreiben-und-gleichlautende-Laendererlasse/Anhang-64/anhang-64.html'>GoBD</a> will implicitly apply to practically any company."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 116,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2022,
        "month": 3,
        "day": 1
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2.2",
        "text": "<a href='https://www.ferd-net.de/publikationen-produkte/publikationen/detailseite/zugferd-22'>on Ferd-Net.de</a>."
      }
    },
    {
      "unique_id": 117,
      "start_date": {
        "year": 2024,
        "month": 9,
        "day": 18
      },
      "group": "ZUGFeRD",
      "text": {
        "headline": "ZUGFeRD 2.3",
        "text": "<a href='https://www.ferd-net.de/publikationen-produkte/publikationen/detailseite/zugferd-23-deutsch'>on Ferd-Net.de</a>."
      }
    }    
   
  ]
}