France sets the technical standards accredited e-invoicing platforms must meet
This page records one dated change. For the rules in France as they stand today, see the France guide →
- Jurisdiction
- 🇫🇷 France
- Tax
- VAT
- Change type
- E-invoicing
- Status
- In force
- Impact
- Action required
- Announced
- 28 July 2026
- Effective
- 29 July 2026
- Instrument
- FR-MINORDER-EINV-2026
- Authority
- Journal officiel de la République française (Légifrance)
- Systems
- Invoicing, Tax engine, ERP
- Verified
- Fetched from official source · high confidence
Accredited platforms (plateformes agréées) operating under the French e-invoicing mandate, and every business that relies on one from 1 September 2026.
Confirm with your accredited platform that its invoice formats and APIs conform to AFNOR XP Z12-012, XP Z12-013 and XP Z12-014 before the 1 September 2026 mandatory start.
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The Arrêté du 27 juillet 2026 relatif à la généralisation de la facturation électronique, published in JORF n°0174 of 28 July 2026 alongside Décret n° 2026-677, sets the technical requirements accredited platforms must meet. It requires conformance with AFNOR standards XP Z12-012 for invoice and status-message formats and profiles, XP Z12-013 for the application programming interfaces between company information systems and accredited platforms, and XP Z12-014 for business use cases.
What changed in detail
The Arrêté du 27 juillet 2026, published in JORF n°0174 of 28 July 2026 alongside Décret n° 2026-677, sets what accredited platforms must actually do: conform to AFNOR XP Z12-012 for invoice and status-message formats and profiles, XP Z12-013 for the interfaces between company information systems and accredited platforms, and XP Z12-014 for business use cases.
What it means
Conformance moves from a specification your vendor claims to meet, to a legal condition of their accreditation. The practical question to put to a provider is no longer “do you support Factur-X” but “which profiles of XP Z12-012 do you implement, and which of the 44 use cases in XP Z12-014”.