A short introduction to PEPPOL outlining the purpose of the project, what is entails, who is acitve in the pilot and links to some resources.

1. Introduction to PEPPOL
Pan-European Public Procurement Online project

2. What is PEPPOL?
• Is an EU initiated and funded project
• Is an eProcurement project that will enable any
company in any EU member state to respond to any
tender across the EU
• Simply put: any Irish or EU company will be able to
tender for government projects in any EU member
state

3. Why PEPPOL?
• Less than 5% of total procurement budgets are
awarded electronically
• Only 1.6% of contracts are supplied by an entity in
another Member State
• Simply put: It is estimated that if eProcurement is
adopted by all European contracting authorities,
annual savings could exceed €50B

4. How will PEPPOL work?
• PEPPOL will re-move the technical and procedural
barriers to public procurement by enabling European
businesses to deal electronically with any public
buyers in their procurement processes
• Simply put: PEPPOL is a document exchange service
enabling eDelivery of business documents between
government agencies and private companies

5. Is PEPPOL live?
• PEPPOL currently in test phase in 12 EU member
states.
• Ireland is an active participant.
• Celtrino is a key member of the Irish PEPPOL project
• Celtrino’s public sector project partner is the Health
Service Executive (HSE)
• Other participating countries - Austria, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom

6. PEPPOL Technical Stuff
• PEPPOL will be deployed across the EU via open
standards.
• The principle standards PEPPOL uses are known as
BusDox and Business Interoperability Interfaces (BII)
as well as the PEPPOL Business Interoperability
Specifications (BIS).

7. Resources
• PEPPOL Starter Kit • e-Invoicing white paper

8. Questions?
• Ken Halpin, a recognised expert on the European e-
Invoicing landscape.
• Please contact me via LinkedIn. I’ll answer any questions
you may have on the PEPPOL project.