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    <title>Sparqly Blog</title>
    <link>https://sparqly.eu/blog/</link>
    <description>Operator guides on EV charging operations, roaming, billing, and compliance.</description>
    <language>en</language>
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      <title>VAT on EV charging in the EU: what charge point operators have to handle</title>
      <link>https://sparqly.eu/blog/eu-vat-on-ev-charging/</link>
      <guid>https://sparqly.eu/blog/eu-vat-on-ev-charging/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Compliance</category>
      <description>EV charging VAT is not one rule — it is a different obligation in every market. A practical overview for operators running cross-border networks.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Planning an OCPP 1.6 to 2.0.1 migration without downtime</title>
      <link>https://sparqly.eu/blog/ocpp-migration-without-downtime/</link>
      <guid>https://sparqly.eu/blog/ocpp-migration-without-downtime/</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Operations</category>
      <description>Moving a charging network to a newer OCPP version — or a new CPMS — does not have to mean an outage. Here is how to de-risk the cutover.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Revenue assurance for CPMS: why failed reconciliation needs a queue</title>
      <link>https://sparqly.eu/blog/revenue-assurance-exception-queue/</link>
      <guid>https://sparqly.eu/blog/revenue-assurance-exception-queue/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Revenue</category>
      <description>Most charging revenue leakage is not theft — it is sessions that quietly fail to reconcile. Here is why an exception queue beats a month-end spreadsheet.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>OCPI for charge point operators: roles, and what roaming actually requires</title>
      <link>https://sparqly.eu/blog/ocpi-for-charge-point-operators/</link>
      <guid>https://sparqly.eu/blog/ocpi-for-charge-point-operators/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Roaming</category>
      <description>A practical look at the CPO and eMSP roles in OCPI, the objects you publish, and what a roaming integration really asks of your platform.</description>
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