Babelway legal compliance

Electronic invoicing has legal implications and regulatory constraints that other B2B flows don’t necessarily have. This has created resistance to a wide adoption by businesses.

Babelway has put in place the security management tools such that our customers can safely use Babelway to exchange invoices with their customers and suppliers in most regulatory environments. These tools include

• EDI standards and secure transmission protocols. The combination of EDI standards
  and secure protocols is an acceptable method for the exchange of invoices in most countries
  
  
• Support for the sending of certified PDF documents with electronic signatures
  
  
• Certificates and keys made available by Babelway allow 'advanced electronic signatures' as defined
  in the Directive 1999/93/CE of the European Parliament and the Council 13 December 1999.
  
  
• All messages transiting by Babelway are traced in a way that the authenticity of origin and
  the integrity of content is guaranteed. These guarantees are legal EU requirements in archiving electronic invoices.

Audits and accreditations:

From May to October 2008, KUL University Professor Jos Dumortier, an internationally recognised expert in the field of legal electronic signatures, and UCL University Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater, an expert in cryptography audited the Babelway solution and checked its compliance with the legal requirements imposed by the EU Directive about electronic invoicing.

In March 2009, Babelway received the accreditation from the Belgian tax administration as accepted and compliant method for the transfer and the archiving of electronic invoices.

Note: As a self-service platform, customers can use Babelway in a way that guarantees the authenticity of origin and the integrity of the message. However, Babelway does not accept responsibility for the way in which customers assemble specific channels, establish interchange contracts with their partners and connect their own systems to their Babelway hub. Babelway stresses to customers that it their responsibility to check their own usage of Babelway and to assess whether it complies with their local regulatory environments.