🇪🇺European Union (ViDA)
No deadline has passed yet. The first date on the timetable is the one that counts.
Verified on 2026-08-08
The timetable
| Date | Who | Obligation | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2030upcoming | all VAT-registered businesses carrying out intra-EU transactions | EN 16931 electronic invoicing and digital reporting | intra-eu |
| 1 January 2035upcoming | member states with a national system predating 2024 | alignment with the European standard | b2b |
Legal basis. The ViDA package (VAT in the Digital Age), adopted on 11/03/2025.
Formats and transmission
- Accepted formats
- EN 16931 (UBL 2.1 and UN/CEFACT CII)
- Regulatory model
- harmonisation
- Transmission network
- Intra-EU digital reporting
The same check via API
This country has its own sealed floor. Pinning it by identifier — eu-en16931-2026-08 — guarantees the same file returns the same verdict ten years from now, whatever gets published in between.
curl -X POST https://api.factlint.com/v1/validate \ -F '[email protected]' \ -F 'jurisdiction=EU' \ -F 'ruleset=eu-en16931-2026-08' \ -H 'Accept-Language: fr'What that format contains, rule by rule →
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What Factlint checks today
Pure EN 16931, in both CII and UBL syntaxes, has been sealed since 09/08/2026: it is the core that ViDA makes every national system converge towards. A verdict rendered against this ruleset is replayable for ten years.
A sealed rule set exists for this jurisdiction: the verdict can be replayed identically, and its fingerprint proves it.
Rules specific to this jurisdiction
No rule specific to this jurisdiction: it is judged on the EN 16931 European core, with no national layer.
Do you build invoicing software?
You are the one carrying this deadline for your customers. Factlint fits upstream of your chain: one call validates, fixes what can be fixed without risk, and returns the exact list of what is missing. Above all, every verdict is rendered against a pinned, time-stamped rule set — so you can replay it years later, and test today against rules that are not yet in force.
Official sources
- European Commission — VAT in the Digital Ageaccessed on 2026-08-08
ViDA makes EN 16931 the European common denominator: the core Factlint already validates is the one national systems will have to converge on.
History of this page
- 2026-08-11Page created.
General information, verified on 2026-08-08. This is neither tax advice nor legal advice. Factlint validates and prepares your files upstream of your platform; it does not transmit them and it replaces no reporting obligation.