The Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland (FeRD) is the partner for all topics relating to electronic business processes, advises market players from public administration, business, associations and consumers and promotes national and international cooperation, in particular by publishing or maintaining standards for the electronic exchange of documents.
The German Electronic Invoicing Forum was founded on March 31, 2010 in Berlin with the participation of various federal and state ministries, the Federal Chancellery (Secretariat of the National Regulatory Control Council, Bureaucracy Reduction Office) and the leading business associations, some trade associations under the umbrella of the AWV - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wirtschaftliche Verwaltung e.V., which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection by resolution of the German Bundestag.