Electronic invoice

E-bill

The Rhineland-Palatinate E-Invoicing Ordinance (ERechVORP) has been in force since January 11, 2024. From April 1, 2025, all companies that issue invoices to public clients must issue them in electronic form(Section 3 ERechVORP). Small businesses are exempt from this obligation in accordance with Section 19 of the German Value Added Tax Act (UStG).

Electronic invoices to the Verbandsgemeinde Südeifel and its local municipalities must be submitted via the Rhineland-Palatinate Central Invoice Receipt (ZRE).

Detailed information on the ZRE for billers can be found here:

https://e-rechnung.service.rlp.de/informationen-fuer-rechnungssteller

How do I submit electronic invoices to the ZRE?

E-invoices to the Südeifel local authority and its local municipalities must be submitted exclusively via the central invoice receipt platform of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (ZRE):

• via the Rhineland-Palatinate e-invoicing portal or
• by e-mail to zre-rlp@poststelle.rlp.de

Prior registration at the Central E-Invoice Receipt RLP (ZRE) is required for submission. This is done via the "My company account" (MUK) on the basis of an existing ELSTER user account.

Further information can be found under the following links:

Registration information
Rhineland-Palatinate e-invoicing portal
Submitting an e-invoice: what you need to know
FAQs for invoice issuers
Information on the legal basis for e-invoicing
Terms of use

Route ID

For the successful transmission and correct assignment of an electronic invoice via the ZRE, it is essential to specify the routing ID.

The route ID for the municipality of Südeifel and its local communities is:

072325005000-001-69

Which formats are accepted?

The XRechnung standard in the currently valid version should preferably be used.

ZUGFeRD in the currently valid version, provided it meets the requirements of the European standard for electronic invoicing (EN-16931), the RLP e-invoicing law, the e-invoicing ordinance of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the terms of use of the RLP central e-invoicing system.

Important!

If you do not send the invoices in a valid file format, the process will be rejected by ZRE and therefore not forwarded to us as the invoice recipient. If this is the case, you will be informed accordingly by ZRE.