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DE-R-022: If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, attached documents…

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-022]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, attached documents provided with an invoice in "ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS" (BG-24) shall have a unique filename (non case-sensitive) within the element ″Attached document″ (BT-125).
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatal(/ubl-invoice:Invoice | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]count(cac:AdditionalDocumentReference) = count(cac:AdditionalDocumentReference[not(./cac:Attachment/cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject/@filename = preceding-sibling::cac:AdditionalDocumentReference/cac:Attachment/cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject/@filename)])

Business terms referenced

BG-24, BT-125

Related rules

BR-52, BR-TMP-4, BR-TMP-5, CII-SR-476, CII-DT-105, CII-DT-106, BR-DEX-01

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

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