The European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) is a tool aimed at easing the administrative burden on economic operators and small and medium-sized enterprises in the context of tender procedures launched in the European Union. The ESPD, operational throughout Europe as of 18 October 2018, is an (exclusively) electronic document to be prepared following the technical rules of the Agency for Digital Italy. 

In Italy, the Public Contracts Code (Legislative Decree No. 50/2016) introduced the obligation for contracting authorities to accept the ESPD for all procedures called as early as 18 April 2018. 

Unioncamere, with the aim of facilitating small and medium-sized businesses in the preparation of this document, has created this service that allows entrepreneurs to easily and quickly access the official information on their company held in the Business Register and download it to their PCs in reworkable XML format. 

After downloading, it will be the entrepreneur's responsibility to integrate the information from the Business Register with other information in their possession necessary to complete the European Single Procurement Document, which will then be submitted to the contracting authority to participate in the tender.  

Any service providers interested in embedding the XML file with Business Register data into their systems can write to dgue@infocamere.it.

Unioncamere relies on the technical support of its in-house company InfoCamere for the provision of Business Register data and this service. InfoCamere, in its capacity as manager of the Chambers of Commerce IT system, exclusively guarantees the correspondence of the data provided with those contained in the Chambers' official archives at the time of extraction. 

The Business Register is a public computerised register kept by the Chambers of Commerce on a provincial basis, which in fact represents the registry of businesses: it contains the data (incorporation, modification, termination) of all businesses with any legal form and sector of economic activity, with headquarters or local units in Italy, as well as the other entities provided for by law.