Document formats

E-documents of expenditure files will be sent to the appointed, regional or territorial auditor or to the Underdirectorate General for Auditing, as required, respectively, of the IRIS Dispatches – Appointed Auditing or of the IRIS Dispatches – Underdirectorate General for Auditing, including, where applicable, an e-signature accepted under the terms established by Law 59/2003.

Required e-document formats are:

PDF. Compatible with the latest version of the specification.
TELCON For accounting documents, in accordance with the specifications set down for this purpose in the Accounting System Instruction for the Central Government.
TXT. Plain text for unformatted documents.
HTML 4.01. Formatted documents.
XML. For structured documents.
DOC. Compatible with Microsoft Office version 2003 (without macros).
ZIP. Format for compressing one of the abovementioned formats.

Notification and reports that result from the auditing of the files by the appointed regional, territorial auditing office or the Underdirectorate General for Auditing shall be made available to the management centre through the IRIS system in one of the abovementioned formats so the latter can download them.

The approved e-signature of documents incorporating said signature must conform to ETSI TS 101 903 specification.