Following the approval of the new invoicing rules, the Portuguese Tax Authority published the Ruling 50.001/2013 with the technical requirements of the invoicing programs.
Those technical requirements refer to the:
- i. Signature of the documents issued by invoicing programs;
- ii. Documents' identification (signature) process and subsequent recording in data bases;
- iii. Requirements that should be fulfilled for the application;
- iv. Technical requirements regarding the identification system referred in paragraph b) of article 3 of the Ordinance number 363/2010, of June 23;
- v. Creation of the pair of private/public keys;
- vi. Creation of the certificate.
The invoicing programs already certificated by the Portuguese Tax Authority should also met the technical requirements now published.
Ruling 50.001/2013 is available through the following link: OF 50.001/2013.