According to a "Parliamentary report regarding procurement and e-invoicing", NESUBL becomes an obligatory standard for the government from the year 2010. This was announced on the Norstella web site on May 5, 2009.
Today the government put forward its parliamentary report regarding public procurement and e-invoicing called "The good procurement". The decisions are:
- That through economic regulations require that governmental organizations to have the capability to receive electronic invoices on a specific format (NESUBL) before July 1st 2011.
- That through regulations the government plans to require Norwegian municipalities and regional authorities to use the same standard as the state before July 1st 2012.
- To analyse in the year 2009 the content and the execution of conditions for the public sector. This shall be made in cooperation with the Confederation of Employers before July 1st 2012, but the final date will be determined by the analysis of the regulations.
- To establish a web invoicing portal for organizations that haven’t established their own solutions for this, in good time before the possible order.
- The requirement to send invoices electronically should be applicable to payments in general. Further estimation of possible exceptions should be done in connection with the assessment of regulations.