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DE-R-027: If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, "Seller contact…

warning 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 a warning: on its own it does not reject the invoice.

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Rule text

[DE-R-027]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, "Seller contact telephone number" (BT-42) should contain a valid telephone number. A valid telephone should consist of 3 digits minimum.
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLwarning(/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]matches(normalize-space(cbc:Telephone), $XR-TELEPHONE-REGEX)

Business terms referenced

BT-42

Related rules

DE-R-006, BR-DE-6, BR-DE-27

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

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