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DE-R-031: If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, and if the group…

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-031]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, and if the group "DIRECT DEBIT" (BG-19) is delivered, the element "Debited account identifier" (BT-91) shall be provided.
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatal(/ubl-invoice:Invoice | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]not(cac:PaymentMeans/cac:PaymentMandate) or (cac:PaymentMeans/cac:PaymentMandate/cac:PayerFinancialAccount/cbc:ID)

Business terms referenced

BG-19, BT-91

Related rules

UBL-SR-55, CII-SR-496, DE-R-030, DE-R-023-2, DE-R-024-2, DE-R-025-1, BR-DE-30, BR-DE-31, BR-DE-23-b, BR-DE-24-b, BR-DE-25-a, DE-R-020

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

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