Communities and Work Groups
Click on the tabs below to find out more about each of the stakeholder communities, together with their operational plans for the current year and their associated Work Groups. Information about the current community and work group leaders and members can be found on the WHO-IS-WHO page
There are three stakeholder communities
- End User Community (EUC)
- Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- a community leader
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current stakeholder community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – End User Community (EUC)
- Continue to encourage end user interest in specific subjects, such as
- billing
- ordering
- use of identifiers
- Other business documents
- Have “deep dives” into topics of special interest for the end users
- Continue to support the end users with day-to-day practical issues they raise
- Continue to spread practical advice on how Peppol can benefit a day-to-day business for the end user regardless of being private or public entities
- Continue to support adoption of Peppol, especially for private companies
- Continue to support Cross Community initiatives such as International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Controls
Key initiatives for 2022 – Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Key objective – Provide value to the members by creating the base to acquire important information
and keep high quality discussions
- Regular MC updates of membership and PA development
- Emphasize the importance of different market news and country news to support international development of our members
- Maintain the good quality meeting content
- Specific actions:
-
- Improve the quality of Confluence page – to be more proactive
- Ensure better onboarding of new service providers
- Create a group with representatives from different jurisdictions
- Support members with needed information on market developments (CTC, EESPA etc)
- Encourage the members to execute kick-off groups for specific topics
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- Key objectives:
- Improving alignment, cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst the Peppol Authorities
- Work together on specific topics in order to advise or facilitate OpenPeppol in her strategy for the (near) future
- Improve the security of the Peppol Network
- Specific actions:
- Run fortnightly online roundtable meetings
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
- Contribute to Peppol communication and branding, increasing alignment/reuse with PA communications
There are four domain communities
- Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- CTC Community (CTCC)
Service Provider members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC. Additionally, Post Award Service Providers must also join PoAC and Pre Award Service Provider members must also join PrAC.
Peppol Authority members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC and may optionally join PrAC and/or PoAC.
End User members of OpenPeppol may optionally join any domain community.
Community participation | End Users | Service Providers | Peppol Authorities |
| Peppol Network | optional | required | required |
| Post Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| Pre Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| CTC | optional | optional | optional |
Except for the CTCC, each domain community has a Change Management Board (CMB), which is chaired by the domain community leader. The CMBs determine the annual workplan for their community and prioritise change requests.
The members of each domain community formally elect:
- a community leader
- representatives to their Change Management Board
- representatives to cross-community bodies
The leader of each domain community participates in the OpenPeppol Coordinating Committee.
Each community provides a forum for collaboration and knowledge sharing and hosts face-to-face meetings in March and October each year.
Domain community initiatives are approved each year by the General Assembly and the current initiatives are listed below.
Current domain community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2023 – Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
• Progress alignment with change and release management based on new agreement change processes
• Continue Peppol specification upgrade based on latest version of underlying standard e.g., OASIS SMP2.0, SML
• Commence work on future of SML –defining business requirements followed by solution implementation in due course
• Documentation of Peppol eDeliveryNetwork Architecture
• Ensure and maintain safe & secure operation over Peppol eDeliveryNetwork
Key initiatives for 2023 – Post Award Community (PoAC)
Continue to improve the Peppol BIS messages
Strengthening stability and improve the functionality
Continue to review the use of business and message responses in the network
Mandatory or optional use
Review the use of country specific rules
Which country identifiers to use
Rules on sender and receiver data
Investigate the implementation via PINT
Continue the support for the Proof of Concept and implement the PINT proposition
Collaborate with eDECand the Stakeholder Communities
Deliver new releases
May and November
Implement the new agreements
Implement the new development and release process
Survey the communities to drive CMB decisions
Align the versioning of the specifications
Complete eTenderingProcedure III workgroup
Phase 1:
Analysis of needs and definition of tasks to finalize Restricted Procedure, ESPD BIS 3.0 and pre-award Catalogue, identification of gaps and architecture needs.
Phase 2:
New development of Peppol BIS (guidelines) and business modelling based on CEN BII profiles, eFormsand ESPD 3.0.
Phase 3:
Maintenance and improvement of profiles based on the feedback of early adopters, upcoming changes and architecture needs (e.g., ESPD 4.0, eForms, CEN TC 440).
Assessment of gaps in existing Peppol pre-award BIS with regard to data driven procurement vision.
- Pre-Award catalogue for structured RFQ/Quote process
- Alignment with CEN/TC 440 to create a common standard for pre-award
Key initiatives for 2023 – CTC Community (CTCC)
Contribute to market development activities and supporting the recruitment of new Peppol Authorities and, more generally, the expansion of Peppol into new countries and territories where CTC is a relevant priority for the government
Get at least 1 TA or PA to test the playground
Get at least 1 TA to commit to deployment of Peppol CTC (DCTCE or CCTCE)
Focus on collaboration with DG TAXUD and GROW, and OECD
Subject to engagement of relevant stakeholders and resources availability in the Association, further refine and develop some additional aspects of the Peppol CTC model, such as cross-border, B2C, Centralised clearance scenarios (CCTC)
Improve, enhance, and further develop the existing playground environment
Improved look and feel
More automated “external” SP on-boarding
Prepare several test scenarios, demonstrating both good/approved scenarios and varying bad/rejected scenarios
Visualise in a user-friendly manner the outcomes/results of tests in UI
Enable TA’s to test the playground without real SP’s involvement
Contribute to the work of other communities, investigating whether an increased number of tax codes in Peppol BIS (and later PINT) needs to be introduced to improve the granularity from TA perspective
Work Groups
OpenPeppol establishes formal work groups to manage specific initiatives to ensure the development and sustainability of the Peppol specifications and network.
Work groups are run by a work group leader and populated by volunteer representatives of OpenPeppol members. Work group members commit to actively participate in the discussions and activities of the group, supporting the work group leader in completing the agreed deliverables.
Work groups may be established at an organisational level or within stakeholder and domain communities. Each work group has a documented mandate, setting out the areas of responsibility and the expected deliverables.
Organisational-level work groups
- Peppol Agreement Revision
- Peppol Activity Reporting
Community-level work groups
Post Award work groups
- International Invoicing
- Core Invoice Response
- Peppol BIS Development
- Peppol Test Team
Pre Award work groups
- eTendering
- ESPD
- Qualification
- eForms/publishing
Join a Community or Work Group
Contact the Community Leader or Work Group Leader – details can be found under “who-is-who”.
There are three stakeholder communities
- End User Community (EUC)
- Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- a community leader
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current stakeholder community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – End User Community (EUC)
- Continue to encourage end user interest in specific subjects, such as
- billing
- ordering
- use of identifiers
- Other business documents
- Have “deep dives” into topics of special interest for the end users
- Continue to support the end users with day-to-day practical issues they raise
- Continue to spread practical advice on how Peppol can benefit a day-to-day business for the end user regardless of being private or public entities
- Continue to support adoption of Peppol, especially for private companies
- Continue to support Cross Community initiatives such as International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Controls
Key initiatives for 2022 – Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Key objective – Provide value to the members by creating the base to acquire important information
and keep high quality discussions
- Regular MC updates of membership and PA development
- Emphasize the importance of different market news and country news to support international development of our members
- Maintain the good quality meeting content
- Specific actions:
-
- Improve the quality of Confluence page – to be more proactive
- Ensure better onboarding of new service providers
- Create a group with representatives from different jurisdictions
- Support members with needed information on market developments (CTC, EESPA etc)
- Encourage the members to execute kick-off groups for specific topics
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- Key objectives:
- Improving alignment, cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst the Peppol Authorities
- Work together on specific topics in order to advise or facilitate OpenPeppol in her strategy for the (near) future
- Improve the security of the Peppol Network
- Specific actions:
- Run fortnightly online roundtable meetings
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
- Contribute to Peppol communication and branding, increasing alignment/reuse with PA communications
There are four domain communities
- Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- CTC Community (CTCC)
Service Provider members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC. Additionally, Post Award Service Providers must also join PoAC and Pre Award Service Provider members must also join PrAC.
Peppol Authority members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC and may optionally join PrAC and/or PoAC.
End User members of OpenPeppol may optionally join any domain community.
Community participation | End Users | Service Providers | Peppol Authorities |
| Peppol Network | optional | required | required |
| Post Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| Pre Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| CTC | optional | optional | optional |
Except for the CTCC, each domain community has a Change Management Board (CMB), which is chaired by the domain community leader. The CMBs determine the annual workplan for their community and prioritise change requests.
The members of each domain community formally elect:
- a community leader
- representatives to their Change Management Board
- representatives to cross-community bodies
The leader of each domain community participates in the OpenPeppol Coordinating Committee.
Each community provides a forum for collaboration and knowledge sharing and hosts face-to-face meetings in March and October each year.
Domain community initiatives are approved each year by the General Assembly and the current initiatives are listed below.
Current domain community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2023 – Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
• Progress alignment with change and release management based on new agreement change processes
• Continue Peppol specification upgrade based on latest version of underlying standard e.g., OASIS SMP2.0, SML
• Commence work on future of SML –defining business requirements followed by solution implementation in due course
• Documentation of Peppol eDeliveryNetwork Architecture
• Ensure and maintain safe & secure operation over Peppol eDeliveryNetwork
Key initiatives for 2023 – Post Award Community (PoAC)
Continue to improve the Peppol BIS messages
Strengthening stability and improve the functionality
Continue to review the use of business and message responses in the network
Mandatory or optional use
Review the use of country specific rules
Which country identifiers to use
Rules on sender and receiver data
Investigate the implementation via PINT
Continue the support for the Proof of Concept and implement the PINT proposition
Collaborate with eDECand the Stakeholder Communities
Deliver new releases
May and November
Implement the new agreements
Implement the new development and release process
Survey the communities to drive CMB decisions
Align the versioning of the specifications
Complete eTenderingProcedure III workgroup
Phase 1:
Analysis of needs and definition of tasks to finalize Restricted Procedure, ESPD BIS 3.0 and pre-award Catalogue, identification of gaps and architecture needs.
Phase 2:
New development of Peppol BIS (guidelines) and business modelling based on CEN BII profiles, eFormsand ESPD 3.0.
Phase 3:
Maintenance and improvement of profiles based on the feedback of early adopters, upcoming changes and architecture needs (e.g., ESPD 4.0, eForms, CEN TC 440).
Assessment of gaps in existing Peppol pre-award BIS with regard to data driven procurement vision.
- Pre-Award catalogue for structured RFQ/Quote process
- Alignment with CEN/TC 440 to create a common standard for pre-award
Key initiatives for 2023 – CTC Community (CTCC)
Contribute to market development activities and supporting the recruitment of new Peppol Authorities and, more generally, the expansion of Peppol into new countries and territories where CTC is a relevant priority for the government
Get at least 1 TA or PA to test the playground
Get at least 1 TA to commit to deployment of Peppol CTC (DCTCE or CCTCE)
Focus on collaboration with DG TAXUD and GROW, and OECD
Subject to engagement of relevant stakeholders and resources availability in the Association, further refine and develop some additional aspects of the Peppol CTC model, such as cross-border, B2C, Centralised clearance scenarios (CCTC)
Improve, enhance, and further develop the existing playground environment
Improved look and feel
More automated “external” SP on-boarding
Prepare several test scenarios, demonstrating both good/approved scenarios and varying bad/rejected scenarios
Visualise in a user-friendly manner the outcomes/results of tests in UI
Enable TA’s to test the playground without real SP’s involvement
Contribute to the work of other communities, investigating whether an increased number of tax codes in Peppol BIS (and later PINT) needs to be introduced to improve the granularity from TA perspective
Work Groups
OpenPeppol establishes formal work groups to manage specific initiatives to ensure the development and sustainability of the Peppol specifications and network.
Work groups are run by a work group leader and populated by volunteer representatives of OpenPeppol members. Work group members commit to actively participate in the discussions and activities of the group, supporting the work group leader in completing the agreed deliverables.
Work groups may be established at an organisational level or within stakeholder and domain communities. Each work group has a documented mandate, setting out the areas of responsibility and the expected deliverables.
Organisational-level work groups
- Peppol Agreement Revision
- Peppol Activity Reporting
Community-level work groups
Post Award work groups
- International Invoicing
- Core Invoice Response
- Peppol BIS Development
- Peppol Test Team
Pre Award work groups
- eTendering
- ESPD
- Qualification
- eForms/publishing
Join a Community or Work Group
Contact the Community Leader or Work Group Leader – details can be found under “who-is-who”.