France abolishes the Portail Public de Facturation
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-DECREE-677-2026
- Authority
- Journal officiel de la République française (Légifrance)
- Systems
- Invoicing, Tax engine, ERP
- Verified
- Fetched from official source · high confidence
Every French business in scope of the 1 September 2026 e-invoicing mandate — there is no longer a free state routing channel, so all of them must be on a private accredited platform.
Confirm your accredited platform (plateforme agréée) designation before the 1 September 2026 mandate start — the PPF no longer exists as a routing alternative — and allow for the 2, 5 and 15 business-day steps if you plan to switch platforms.
InvoicingTax engineERP
Décret n° 2026-677 du 27 juillet 2026, published in JORF n°0174 of 28 July 2026 and in force from 29 July 2026, amends Annexe II of the Code général des impôts to remove the Portail Public de Facturation as a reception and routing channel, replacing the phrase 'Le portail public de facturation' with 'L'annuaire central et la transmission des données à l'administration'. It adds Articles 242 nonies E bis, ter and quater, establishing a formal platform-switching procedure between accredited platforms: the receiving platform notifies the departing platform within 2 business days, the departing platform may contest within 5 business days, the receiving platform updates the central directory within 15 business days, and the departing platform must maintain services for one year after a switch.
What changed in detail
Décret n° 2026-677 du 27 juillet 2026, published in JORF n°0174 and in force from 29 July, amends Annexe II of the Code général des impôts to remove the Portail Public de Facturation as a reception and routing channel — replacing every reference to it with “l’annuaire central et la transmission des données à l’administration”.
The same decree adds Articles 242 nonies E bis, ter and quater, creating a formal procedure for moving between accredited platforms: the receiving platform notifies the departing one within 2 business days, the departing platform may contest within 5, the receiving platform updates the central directory within 15, and the departing platform must keep services running for a year after the switch.
What it means
Five weeks before go-live, the free state fallback is formally gone — every business must be on a private accredited platform. The mobility rules matter more than they look: the one-year continuity obligation is what stops a platform from holding your archive hostage, and the 15-day directory update is the real lead time on any switch. Do not plan a platform migration inside the September window.
Proof
4° Dans l'intitulé du C, les mots : « Le portail public de facturation » sont remplacés par les mots : « L'annuaire central et la transmission des données à l'administration ».4° In the heading of C, the words "The public invoicing portal" are replaced by the words "The central directory and the transmission of data to the administration".
Archived from the official distribution · JORFTEXT000054499487 · NOR CPPE2610307D · JORF n°0174 du 28 juillet 2026 · echanges.dila.gouv.fr