European Parliament
A7-0292/2011
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău  (S&D ).
(RO)
Madam President, the Single Euro Payments Area is vital to the completion of the internal market. Thanks to the close link between invoices and payments, the Single Euro Payments Area provides a platform for an interoperable European
-invoicing system. The large-scale adoption of
-invoicing will encourage, in turn, the migration of financial instruments to the Single Euro Payments Area.
To ensure that these mutual benefits are achieved, the
-invoicing standard must conform to ISO standard 20022 for financial services messages, which is used in the Single Euro Payments Area. Similarly, both
-invoicing and the Single Euro Payments Area should be integrated into the public online payment systems developed by the public authorities in Member States and by European Union institutions. I call on the Commissioner to provide more details about the above-mentioned developments.

