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DE-R-010: If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the element "Deliver…

fatal UBL

What this error means and how to fix it

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.

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Rule text

[DE-R-010]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the element "Deliver to city" (BT-77) shall be provided if the group "DELIVER TO ADDRESS" (BG-15) is delivered.
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatal(/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]cbc:CityName[boolean(normalize-space(.))]

Business terms referenced

BT-77, BG-15

Related rules

BR-DE-10, BR-57, DE-R-011, BR-DE-11

Source: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Schematron, UBL (OpenPeppol, docs.peppol.eu validation artefacts 3.0.21).

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