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(38) In order to allow contracting authorities and contracting entities to properly prepare and take the technical measures that, following the establishment of the European standard on electronic invoicing and the approval of the list of syntaxes, are necessary to comply with this Directive, and in view of the necessity for swift implementation of electronic invoicing, a transposition deadline of 18 months following the publication of the reference of the European standard on electronic invoicing and the list of syntaxes in the Official Journal of the European Union should be considered justified. By derogation from this general transposition deadline and in order to facilitate the take up of electronic invoicing for certain contracting authorities, such as local and regional contracting authorities and public undertakings, Member States should be allowed to postpone the application of this Directive for sub-central contracting authorities and contracting entities until 30 months following the publication of the reference of the European standard on electronic invoicing and the list of syntaxes in the Official Journal of the European Union. This possibility to postpone the application of the requirements of this Directive should not apply to central purchasing bodies.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.