fatal UBL
A national rule of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 for the country in the rule prefix (for example NO, DK, IT, SE, GR): it usually applies when the seller is in that country. This is an error: the invoice is rejected until it is fixed.
This error needs information only you have, so it is not repaired automatically. The free check shows every finding in the file with its location; if other errors in the same file are in the automatic set (totals, VAT breakdown, rounding, element order), the result page offers the corrected file for 9 €.
[DE-R-016]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, and if one of the VAT codes S, Z, E, AE, K, G, L, or M is used, an invoice shall contain at least one of the following elements: "Seller VAT identifier" (BT-31) or "Seller tax registration identifier" (BT-32) or "SELLER TAX REPRESENTATIVE PARTY" (BG-11).
| Syntax | Severity | Context (XPath) | Test (XPath) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peppol-UBL | fatal | (/ubl-invoice:Invoice | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE] | (not( ($BT-95-UBL-Inv = $supportedVATCodes or $BT-95-UBL-CN = $supportedVATCodes) or ($BT-102 = $supportedVATCodes) or ($BT-151 = $supportedVATCodes) ) or (cac:TaxRepresentativeParty, $BT-31orBT-32Path)) |
BT-31, BT-32, BG-11
BR-AE-02, BR-AE-03, BR-AE-04, BR-E-02, BR-E-03, BR-E-04, BR-G-02, BR-G-03, BR-G-04, BR-IC-02, BR-IC-03, BR-IC-04
Source: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Schematron, UBL (OpenPeppol, docs.peppol.eu validation artefacts 3.0.21).